Word: rebuilding
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...tumultuous Philippines, East Asia's poorest country, has the most ambitious free-enterprise plans. President Corazon Aquino is pressing for a "second revolution" to rebuild her impoverished and embattled country, which faces Communist insurgents at home and political maneuvers launched by ousted President Ferdinand Marcos from abroad. A Cabinet program calls for the government to withdraw from economic activities "to allow private business to become the prime mover of growth." Scheduled for sale are more than $6 billion worth of assets in idled companies, many of them abandoned to bankruptcy by Marcos or his cronies. Also to be sold...
Well, thank God that our hero fireman decided to retire to Nicholas, because without him Ernest probably wouldn't have been able to fight off the bad guys. They rebuild the bar and turn it into a resort called Club Paradise, where wacky things happen to our cast of journeyman comedians and comediennes. This includes almost the entire cast of the recently pathetically unfunny Saturday Night Live...
Despite the lack of official comment from IBM, the reason for its generosity was obvious: the company is trying hard to rebuild its dwindling share of the $10 billion-ayear personal-computer market. Only 14 months ago, IBM commanded 40% of sales, largely on the strength of the $1,995 PC, which had become an industry standard. Since then, however, a slew of small, feisty computer makers have stolen away a hefty chunk of IBM's business by building personal computers that run software written for IBM PCs but sell for a fraction of the cost. The sellers of these...
...said that mathematicians before 1900 used intuitive methods to prove theorems in algebraic geometry. Zariski said he found in his studies that "the edifice of algebraic geometry was shaky in its foundations," and that he set out to "rebuild the foundations of the field...
Consider, for example, the sad story of Warner LeRoy's attempt to help rebuild Manhattan's Bryant Park, a nine-acre urban oasis now inhabited largely by drug peddlers. Almost four years ago, New York City authorities announced a grand rehabilitation scheme that would feature the construction of a glass- walled cafe-restaurant. LeRoy, who operates the city-owned Tavern on the Green in Central Park, offered to build the restaurant with $12 million of his own money. "That will help make the park a great, wonderful public gathering place," said LeRoy, "like the Via Veneto or the Piazza...