Word: refurbish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of $500 million. The area now attracts winos and beach bums to its sleazy hotels and littered alleys. Despite everything, Miami Beach still has the assets of pleasant climate and huge convention facilities, while businessmen have appealed for $100 million in Government guarantees and outright loans to refurbish and expand the big hotels. And Beach officials are trying to rectify the reputation of resort employees for surliness to tourists. The officials have held special sessions with cab drivers and hotel workers to coach them in etiquette, and passed out buttons to employees reading: BUTTER...
Supporters of the fundamental school, which attracts over 400 students and has become increasingly popular over the past few years, want to refurbish an abandoned elementary school which formerly housed the Russell Elementary School...
...though its Lido-style floor show has yet to reopen. In warm weather, Beirut's St Georges swimming club, located next to the internationally renowned burned-out hotel of the same name, has reopened for swimming, sunning and girl watching Owner Michel Nader, who spent $500,000 to refurbish his club, left one bullet-riddled section of the bar as it was, "so people can remember and talk about what madness the civil war was." Another sign of returning normality: the reappearance of foreigners, including about 2,000 of the 5,000 Americans who lived in Beirut before...
...Central Committee formally decided to refurbish the old anthem with some new words. Commissioned to do the job were the two original authors, who had been paid 100,000 rubles ($19,000) when they composed the lyrics in 1943. They were two-time Stalin Prize-winning Poet Sergei Mikhalkov and Harold El-Registan, a pop songwriter best known for his operetta Only Love...
...resurrect him as, of all things, a national hero. At ceremonies last week in Bucharest celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rumania's independence, Ceausescu solemnly included Dracula among the immortals in the nation's Hall of Fame. The honor bestowed on Dracula followed a propaganda campaign to refurbish the image of the count. The real Dracula, Rumanian party historians insist, was the 15th century warrior-prince Vlad Dracula, who heroically battled Turkish oppressors...