Word: rebirth
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...prisons have come on-line, and 60 others are either under construction or planned. But the benefactors of this public largesse -- the architects, builders and contractors, as well as merchants and job seekers in countless rural towns that are actively looking to new prisons as a vehicle for economic rebirth -- may be inadvertently driving the costs beyond a level American society as a whole can afford...
This point of refusing to tolerate the neoconservatives' and the New Right's white racist shenanigans must be made as strongly as Rabbi Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League has made it clear to Americans that a rebirth of anti-Semitism (like the vicious movement of deny the existence of the Holocaust) will no to be tolerated. "Never again...Never again...
...Hits Bottom (descent into underworld). Then stumbles halfway up, to Betty Ford or some equivalent purgatorial rehab. At last, fallen angel reascends to the upper air, finds new life (often new mate as well, or else peace with the truth that, hey, it's O.K. to be alone). The rebirth is celebrated on the cover of PEOPLE: Drew Barrymore, Richard Pryor, Kitty Dukakis, Roseanne Arnold, all the newly clear-eyed. After the exorcism of devils, resurrection and hugs. "I've got my life together now, Barbara. I'm more centered...
...building boom of the go-go 1980s, housing suffered its worst decline since World War II: new home starts plunged 15%, to 1 million units. But with falling interest rates and the lure of tax credits enticing consumers back into the market, the industry is showing surprising signs of rebirth...
...called the Millennium Society has lined up the QE2 to transport 3,000 people, all presumably upbeat, to a huge celebration at the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The authors of Megatrends 2000 look to "a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reform and great cultural rebirth...