Word: vacant
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Less than 10 miles from the Mexican border, a vacant lot in Sierra Vista, Ariz., looks like a trash dump. Between the chaparral and scrub oaks are backpacks, sweatshirts, jeans, sneakers, used toilet paper and water bottles filled with urine. Chris Simcox, a small-town newspaper owner, flips through a book he picked out of the refuse titled Aprenda Ingles sin Maestro (Learn English Without a Teacher), shakes his head and says, "Welcome to the invasion...
...Saturdays an elementary school playground fills with stands selling collard greens, turnips and okra organically grown by African-American farmers in Kankakee County, south of Chicago. She and her husband Tracey also began growing vegetables in their backyard, a project that has expanded into a working farm on six vacant lots. Last year they grew 40,000 lbs. of produce...
...Frida Giannini Shoe-In She possesses what may be the fashion industry's top commodity, a knack for creating a must-have. So successful has Frida Giannini been as Gucci's accessories designer, one of many posts left vacant when design deity Tom Ford departed the $2 billion luxury house last year, that she has been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet...
...possesses what may be the fashion industry's top commodity, a knack for creating a must-have. So successful has Frida Giannini been as Gucci's accessories designer, one of many posts left vacant when design deity Tom Ford departed the $2 billion luxury house last year, that she has been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet-and-leather Pelham bags...
...borne the brunt of the company's downsizing, as Carp has sought cheaper manufacturing abroad. Most of the company's digital cameras are now made in China. In Rochester's northwest, the 2,200-acre Kodak Park, once the hub of Kodak's industrial operations, is full of vacant lots and demolished buildings. At its peak in 1982, the firm--once called the Great Yellow Father--employed more than 60,000 people in the city and had long been famous for its paternalistic employee policies. That figure is now 16,300 and trending down. Factories have also been closed...