Word: refurbishment
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Harvard is spending $50 million to refurbish the aging Houses over a four-year period by repairing roofs, walls, wiring, floors and other aspects of the upperclass buildings, many of which were built more than 50 years...
...lure of guest suites for interesting visitors has prompted Mather House to refurbish its one suite this fall. "It definitely won't look like one of the students' rooms," says Anne Aubrey, assistant to the masters...
...tale of the missing documents began last summer, after the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research decided to refurbish six safes-actually bar-lock file cabinets that are kept in a vault. Their contents were to be transferred to microfilm, and the empty safes sent to Lorton Reformatory, a maximum-security prison in Virginia that had contracted to fix up Government furniture...
...with $300,000 in debts, no employees, no phones, no plan"?actually locked out of its first office after a credit check?the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee has burgeoned in four years to something greater than phenomenal. The L.A.O.O.C. plan: Don't build any sports palaces, refurbish the Memorial Coliseum. Spread the Olympic Village lightly over U.S.C., U.C.L.A. and U.C., Santa Barbara. Dot the megalopolis with stirring events. "We didn't have the three top sources of income available to all prior Olympic Games," Ueberroth (pronounced you-ber-roth) says. "The No. 1 income source has been government...
...refurbish EPA's standing, Ruckelshaus, who took over the agency last March, is urging the Reagan Administration to get quickly behind a new policy to control acid rain. Previously Reaganites have supported only "more study" of the subject. But Ruckelshaus has recommended a plan to reduce sulfur emissions by 4 million to 5 million tons a year, mainly in the Northeast. To comply with this proposal would cost between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion...