Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fetched a price of $1,700. A $25,000 investment later, Robinson was able to fly the plane to Fort Lauderdale, where its renovation came to another $138,000. Robinson's reasoning was, "It gives you the feeling you've done something most people haven't done. You did rebuild and restore a 44-year-old airplane. I hope someday it will go into a museum someplace." For Jack Moore, his investment is a wistful tip of the hat to another age: "I'm 56 years old. When I was a boy, we looked up when a plane came over...
...manufacturers claiming to have a new treatment for the disease. About half a dozen drugs are currently under serious study. Several, including ribavirin, suramin and one called compound S, have shown promise in blocking the replication of the AIDS virus. But few, if any, have demonstrated the potential to rebuild the devastated immune systems of AIDS patients...
...Columbia, the fire was a fortuitous opportunity to rebuild 547 Riverside as a dormitory. The longer the university could delay repairs, the better the chance that extensive rain damage would provide an excuse for rebuilding as a dorm--and the better the chance that evicted tenants would give up and relinquish their rights to apartments in the building...
...DEMOCRATS' SOLUTIONS to their deeper problems seem to consist of denial and rhetoric. They wait for the pendulum while talking about the need to: reshape, reassess assumptions, start to rebuild, shed old images, seize opportunities and, not least...
...control last May after a police confrontation with the radical black group Move left eleven cult members and children dead and ignited a fire that swept through 61 houses. Under his leadership, Philadelphians rallied to assist the 250 homeless residents of the Osage Avenue neighborhood; the city pledged to rebuild their destroyed houses and repair all damage caused by the fire, at a cost of some $12 million. The mayor also accepted full responsibility for what had happened. As he explained then: "People like a decisive leader (who) does not try to find scapegoats...