Word: refurbish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, the gossip fizzed through the ad world: "Coca-Cola is changing. Coke will have a completely new look." It was no idle rumor. Lippincott & Margulies, the Manhattan design consultants, were hard at work on a multimillion-dollar project intended to refurbish Coca-Cola's image. Says Walter Margulies: "The whole thing has been more secret than the work we did with Admiral Rickover on the Nautilus." Now it is finished, and the company has told the world to prepare for "the most massive change in the graphics of a product that has ever been done...
...Cuernavaca suburbs, where he was impressed with both the pastoral uses of the monks' experimental worship services and the strikingly different religious art that complemented them. The bishop asked the monastery's principal artist, Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora, to help him refurbish the city's 400-year-old cathedral. Gloomy Victorian clutter was stripped away, revealing priceless 17th century murals, and the neoclassic high altar was replaced by a simple modernistic sanctuary designed by De la Mora. The result is a stunning example of religious architecture...
Real Newspaper. As an instrument to refurbish the image of Communist unity, the conference was a bust. That very fact, oddly enough, may serve to make Communism seem less sinister to the rest of the world. For what the delegates in effect ratified in Moscow was a decision to tolerate dissent within Communism, thus bringing to the movement a semblance of democracy. It was the first summit in history in which Communists were allowed to disagree with the majority view and could hold to their divergent beliefs without threat of being thrown out of the movement. At the farewell reception...
...what had happened to a party that had almost everything going for it. Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez in the '50s had used the country's oil revenues, its biggest source of income, to turn Caracas into one of South America's most spectacular cities and to refurbish himself as well. Action Democrdtica ousted Perez Jimenez in 1958 and put the oil money into schools, highways, health programs and rural electrification. Venezuela still has a $900 million reserve and the bolivar is the continent's strongest currency. Not surprisingly, Barrios' slogan was a simple "continuismo...
...interesting that the United States Government is giving this University $200,000 to refurbish Harvard Hall, when efforts toward the solution of many more desperate problems in the area lack necessary funding...