Word: refurbishment
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...school, engineering school and medical center--which includes the hospital and medical school--are also incurring increasing costs as they refurbish and renovate Moreover, tuition is the major source of money for the medical school because of lack of endowment, said L. Thompson Bowles, dean of the med school...
...because "it is the fashion of the neighborhood." Some house renovation, however, does result from neighborhood pressure. When people feel the neighborhood is threatened by nearby empty lots, burned buildings, abandoned cars, cratered streets and sidewalks, they become afraid of further neglect. Cajoling a negligent neighbor to repair or refurbish becomes a matter of self-defense. But much remodeling, good or bad, also is done be cause the family cannot afford to move or hates to move. Amid the anonymity of modern city life, the idea of neighborhood, particularly ethnic neighborhood, is gaining importance. People crave a sense of belonging...
...Lady Diana Spencer, 20, the well-born and distinctively dishy commoner, is a fairy tale of present pomp and past glory, a last page from the tattered book of empire with the gold leaf still intact. It is by Rudyard Kipling out of Walter Bagehot, a ceremony intended to refurbish and reaffirm tradition...
Feinstein, a Democrat who supported Jimmy Carter to the bitter end, fears that federal cutbacks will hamper future efforts to improve city services, including a plan to refurbish San Francisco's dilapidated trademark, cable cars. Says she: "We have significantly less purchasing power than in past years, but so far the impact has only been on the surface...
...White House balcony to welcome foreign visitors. They fully reinstated Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief. They stationed a Marine in dress uniform at the entrance to the West Lobby, just to salute decoratively and open the door. They spent $736,000 (all privately donated) to refurbish the family living quarters of the mansion, which had become a little tacky. Nancy Reagan wears expensively elegant designer clothes ("American thoroughbred," Women's Wear Daily calls her look) and sets a handsome table of French dishes and the best California wines. Her Los Angeles hairdresser, Julius Bengtsson, flies...