Word: refurbish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...houses to meet the demand. So far, the city has acquired only 1,031 lots with 562 available houses, but there are 36,000 abandoned homes in Philadelphia, at least half of which are in good enough condition to be rehabilitated. Given the hazards of slum life, loans to refurbish the houses will have to be made by public-spirited corporations. But then, the first homesteaders were never promised a rose garden. The new law is a bold response to the grim urban paradox of a shortage of adequate housing accompanied by the abandonment of structurally sound homes...
...LATE GREAT CREATURE by Brock Brower. An oldtime horror-movie actor attempts to refurbish the glories of the gothic and macabre traditions in a time of cheap thrills...
...public inconvenience. New York's Lincoln Center cost $184 million, took ten years to complete, and disrupted traffic and residential life over a 14-acre area for much of that time. The other way is to take an existing theater, such as an abandoned movie palace, and simply refurbish it. This more modest method may produce less grand results, but it is cheaper, quicker and less traumatic for the surrounding community...
...served as Commandant at West Point. Davison, rated by a Pentagon colleague as "a professional with a human touch," is already having an impact. After an inspection, Davison pronounced the Army's barracks "a scandal and a disgrace," and will supervise the spending of $70 million earmarked to refurbish the worst of them...
...also free to indulge in old pastimes. The King, an accomplished pilot, recently tried out the controls of the first Boeing 707 jet acquired by Royal Jordanian Airlines. He water-skis at Aqaba, tools around on a shiny motorcycle, and sends Princess Muna off every few months to refurbish her wardrobe in Paris and London. With the fedayeen defanged, he is preoccupied with international rather than domestic problems, most notably the Arab-Israeli conflict. In recent months, the world's attention has focused on efforts to achieve an Egyptian-Israeli accommodation over the Suez Canal. Such an arrangement, however...