Word: refurbish
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...what had happened to a party that had almost everything going for it. Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez in the '50s had used the country's oil revenues, its biggest source of income, to turn Caracas into one of South America's most spectacular cities and to refurbish himself as well. Action Democrdtica ousted Perez Jimenez in 1958 and put the oil money into schools, highways, health programs and rural electrification. Venezuela still has a $900 million reserve and the bolivar is the continent's strongest currency. Not surprisingly, Barrios' slogan was a simple "continuismo...
...interesting that the United States Government is giving this University $200,000 to refurbish Harvard Hall, when efforts toward the solution of many more desperate problems in the area lack necessary funding...
...come." There is also no rule in the community that members must shave their heads, although, in practice, most of them do. In a similarly pragmatic vein, the community continues to take in paying weekend guests at Tassajara, and uses the income to operate and refurbish the monastery...
...heard of plans to scrap Bogie's African Queen, the grand old tub in which he and Katharine Hepburn chugged down the Ulanga in their 1951 movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country to help raise money for the East African Cancer Fund. "It's a fun thing to do," explains Reeve, "and I've bought a legend...
...again in another project. This time he was to re-open the defunct Beacon Hill. Days before his first Boston opening, the other investors pulled out. Sack hung on and ended up in the black. The pattern became a familiar one. Choose an unsuccessful or closed theatre, buy it, refurbish it, re-open it. With standardized procedures and good publicity, Ben Sack began to make good...