Word: refurbished
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NEATEST TURNAROUND Can a new management take over a revered but fading institution, refurbish it and attract a young and trendy clientele without alienating its valuable old regulars? In the case of Manhattan's fabled '21' Club, the answer promises to be yes. Biggest controversy is the house hamburger, now with herb butter at the center. Newcomers love it, but old- timers say, "Hold everything...
...problems come at time when Edison is struggling to refurbish the plant and gain permission to reopen it sometime this winter. The plant has been closed since April 1986, for a series of mechanical and managerial problems...
...view of Hawaii Governor John Waihee, "It's not the origin of an investment dollar that makes it good or bad, but how it is invested." Takeovers that encourage U.S. competitiveness and efficiency and refurbish aging plants and equipment, in other words, are usually good, whoever spends the money. Likewise, the money that foreign companies invest in America is usually more important than the ultimate destination of any future profits. "To a worker in Chicago, does it make any difference whether the dividends go to New York or Tokyo? No," says Economist Edward Bernstein, a guest scholar at the Brookings...
...sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table at the Polo Lounge, the hotel's celebrity watering hole. The star-struck Davis, who once owned 20th Century- Fox, says he will refurbish the 260-room hotel for an additional $40 million...
...words trickle out of one's memory from the television pleas for funds to refurbish this statue. In them, Lady Liberty spoke, mourning her tarnished condition like an aging prima donna. If she could not be repolished, she threatened, "I shall become a symbol of shame...