Word: refurbish
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...launched to fulfill its mission) of a second rocket trying to match the orbit of a vehicle already in space is only a very few minutes. Yet the Russians scored a virtual bull's-eye. "The Russians must have multiple launch pads, because you can't refurbish a pad in 24 hours and then check out another rocket for launching in the same place," said one top U.S. space scientist. The extra pads serve Russia well in the event that a rocket malfunctions during countdown...
...Milhaud, attracted the famed Diaghilev Ballet. More recently it had become little more than a second-rate casino group catering to the international gambling set. Then, six years ago, in an effort to alter the popular, frivolous image of Monte Carlo as a playboy playground. Rainier set out to refurbish his concert orchestra. His first-and canniest-move was to hire ex-French Foreign Legion Officer Frémaux...
...encouraging about the entire festival than the success of the one-shot performance at Caesarea. With a baited line out for tourists (some 4,000 from Europe and the U.S. attended this year's festival), they began charting plans to speed reconstruction of the long dead city, to refurbish the theater to accommodate 4,000, as it did in Roman times, and to center future festivals in Caesarea...
...Proceeds from the sales will be used to refurbish our exhibits," said Paynter, as wily mothers skillfully steered their acquisitive children away from the stand. The sale of the dinosaur bones has been slow at first, but Paynter expressed the hope that they would increase as word of the store spread among the local schools...
Best measure of able Premier Kishi's growing strength lay in the confusion displayed by Japan's opposition Socialist Party, which flirts with Communism, seeks to promote Japanese ties with Red China, and hotly opposes Kishi's efforts to refurbish Japan's mutual defense pact with the U.S. Buffeted by three crushing local and national election defeats in the past 16 months, the Socialists gathered last week under huge red flags in Tokyo's Nine Steps Hall, to debate the reasons for their fading popularity and to patch up party squabbles. But after five days...