Word: refurbishment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...general atmosphere here is of something building - not falling apart," he says, his voice not much louder than the construction noise outside. He's not just talking about new upholstery on the theater's seats. A far more thorough renovation is going on, for Ratmansky is attempting to refurbish not just the Bolshoi's architecture, but its global stature as well. Once the world's pre-eminent classical dance company, the Bolshoi was in steep artistic decline when, in January 2004, Ratmansky was chosen, at age 35, to bring the troupe back from the brink of irrelevance and remake...
...their own Web-based products, such as e-mail hosting and calendars. Associate Dean for Internet Technology Larry M. Levine said that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will be exploring outside e-mail hosting options in the coming months as FAS works to “refurbish and upgrade the central FAS e-mail system.” “If Harvard would like [Google’s] services, we would be happy to provide them,” said Rajen Sheth, a product manager at Google. Google has “hundreds of schools?...
...wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, preparation in case of a breakout of avian flu, rebuilding of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina - and many tangentially related projects. Well, actually, the first-term Senator has at least 19 concerns. He called $176 million in the bill to refurbish a retirement home in Mississippi for veterans an "arbitrary sum." Another $10 million to equip fishing boats with logbooks to record data on how much they fish they were catching was "corporate welfare." And to Coburn, a $500 million provision to pay a defense contractor for business it lost due to Hurricane Katrina...
...Genghis Khan wasn't really a bad guy. He just had bad press." ELBEGDORJ TSAHKIA, Mongolian Prime Minister, announcing an official campaign to refurbish Khan's current image as a brutal tyrant...
...Reilly's work, though, is far from finished. Daewoo had a loss of $70 million last year and its market share in Korea remains flat at about 10%. Reilly says he's tackling these problems by investing $2.5 billion to refurbish his factories, revitalize research and development, and create new models. Early next year, Daewoo will launch the first SUV designed by its own engineers. "We've made a lot of progress," says Reilly. A full turnaround "shouldn't be that far away." For GM's sake, he'd better be right...