Word: refurbish
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Moses plans several more new programs for freshmen. He has invited faculty members to become associates of the Yard and join Union activities, asked head tutors for upperclass advisers for freshmen in every concentration, and gone ahead with plans to refurbish the Union to give it more seating capacity, a study library, and better lighting and sound-proofing. He has tried to streamline and improve the proctor system and is continuing to boost intramurals. For the Class of '83, Moses plans a pre-Freshmen Week excursion along the lines of Outward Bound, so that freshmen can meet each other...
...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...