Word: refurbishment
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...then dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, had flatly refused to continue to pay the large deficits of the Museum--a situation not dissimilar to the present crisis--and the matter was resolved finally through the intervention of an Advisory Committee and President Pusey's agreement to refurbish the Museum's basement from University funds making it fit for research collections, and to "rent" the upper floors of the Museum building to the Center for International Affairs for a period of five years. In fact, the CFIA remained twenty-five years...
Maybe I don't remember it correctly. My father might have picked the planks up at the Somerville Lumber outlet and lugged the wood home in his pickup. He could have been sanding them down in the garage for all I know. It took him forever to refurbish and nail the planks into the walls of our cold spare room. But after a year and a half, for my 12th Christmas, my parents gave me a new bedroom, a brand-new, wood-paneled room with a skylight and electric heating and wall-to-wall carpeting...
Harvard Management Company (HMC) President Jack R. Meyer, the principal caretaker of the University's endowment, said then that the move did not necessarily mean a financial loss for Harvard, adding that HMC had planned to refurbish the 23-year-old buildings following the Navy's departure as part of an effort to attract new tenants...
Artists and their allies flocked to Bill Clinton's Inaugural expecting him to refurbish the endowment's standing and refill its coffers. Last week he took a major step toward at least the first half of that agenda, naming one of America's most distinguished actresses, Jane Alexander, 53, as the agency's new chairman. Said Clinton: "The endowment's mission of fostering and preserving our nation's cultural heritage is too important to remain mired in the problems of the past. She will be a tireless and articulate spokesperson for the value of bringing art into the lives...
Welcome to amateur hour. Indeed, amateurism is now celebrated by Perot insiders as a boon in a season of finely crafted political double-talk and slick negative advertising. "This is anything but a professional organization," admits Orson Swindle, the top Perot lieutenant, called in to refurbish the sagging effort in the dark days following Perot's withdrawal. "We're all amateurs, but that's not a disadvantage. We've got the enthusiasm of the volunteers...