Word: remodelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...house," says Shaun Chinsky, brand manager for Vieluxe, a $6,000 barbecue brought out this year by the company that makes the humble old Weber. (Its top model, the $3,000 Summit 650, just wasn't pricey enough.) "It's the last place people had left to remodel." The handmade Vieluxe comes with such features as an integrated smoking system, a table that slides out to reveal two side burners, and what Vieluxe is calling "a concierge"--on call 24 hours a day to answer any questions, including what wine to drink with your char-broiled lobster. Built-in rotisseries...
...Finally, associates say, Freeh has a lot of unfinished business. Tops on his agenda is expanding the FBI's global network of agents, allies and sources in the fight against international terrorism and transnational criminal rings. Freeh also hopes to remodel the FBI's electronic infrastructure and to beef up its ability to fight cybercrime. And, working with the Defense Department and CIA, he intends to revamp the federal counterintelligence effort to confront spying by traditional competitors, China and Russia, as well as "friendly" competitors, such as Taiwan...
...layoffs, bankruptcies and general gloom for the Internet industry. Analysts say there were more dotcom layoffs last month than in any month since last December. The NASDAQ plummeted more than 700 points, and websites from MTV.com to OfficeMax slashed their staffs. Even mighty Walmart.com shut its virtual doors to remodel for the holiday rush. The final irony, however, may have come when Dotcomfailures.com a website devoted to bankrupt Internet companies, went out of business. Now that's a downturn...
...redesigning of America is not likely to stop with the objects highlighted in your cover story [DESIGN, March 20]. The consumer will have to remodel the kitchen to accept new gadgets. We'll have to reinvent a nail for the elegant hammer and prepare attractive trash for the see-through wastebasket. We architects designed buildings based on such concepts as "form follows function," "organic architecture" and "less is more." Now industrial designers are coining terms like "blobjects," "commodity chic" and "cutensils" by creating items to match. Kudos to them. CLEMENT R. PRABAKARAN Sterling Heights, Mich...
...developer who hopes to turn it into two apartment-style dwellings, a group of residents has filed a petition with the Cambridge Historical Society and the Cambridge Planning and Zoning Board, asking them to designate the home as a landmark, thus putting a kink in the plans to remodel...