Word: refurbish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store shut down in April to add new equipment and refurbish its serving area, but began to pile up debts after owners became wrapped up in a management dispute, delaying reopening until more than two months after the scheduled date...
What never changes is George Bush's belief that his greatest challenge, his greatest achievement, is his family. "The family is the overriding consideration. It gives strength for everything else. We don't have to refurbish this family. George W. and Jeb have never been closer, and the other children are as much a part of us. Right now, it is tremendously exciting that there are two [Bushes] in public life, and I want their desires to be fulfilled. But Bar and I are going to stay out of the fray. We can help raise money. If George W. wants...
Oliver suggests that by allocating funds to refurbish Hemenway, the administration could dramatically boost students' quality of life...
...Kirkland House Committee Sam Yagan '99, admits that allocation of HoCo funds are "based on the whim of the people present at any particular meeting." Inevitably, committees favor certain investments: Kirkland's HoCo subsidizes the Boat Club; Cabot's Weight Room "Czar" Marty Thiry '00, requested $3,000 to refurbish the weight room, and Lowell's HoCo succeeded in extending dining hall hours. Apportioning is also made in the name of the zany and the philanthropic, from Leverett HoCo's $200 kazoo purchase for their Winter Carnival to Kirkland House's support of a dining hall employee whose house...
...actual details of the budget agreement, we are pleased that funds have been allocated for the hiring of 100,000 new teachers but wish that these new instructors could be held to some national standard of competency and money had been allocated to build new schools and refurbish old and decrepit ones...