Word: refurbished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to create jobs for unemployed youths. In Nanjing, 600 otherwise unemployable young people have been given jobs as hairdressers and bathhouse attendants. Shanghai last month tried to provide make-work for several hundred jobless young by paying them 53? a day to scramble up bamboo scaffolding and help refurbish the city's many stately but decaying Victorian office buildings. There are even special catch-up courses for young people. At the Xiang Ming Middle School, near Shanghai's old French Concession, former Red Guards show up each night to resume their interrupted education. Says School Principal Jiang...
Caddell wrote a virtual blueprint for Carter's Camp David summit. In fact, Caddell had been trying to persuade Carter to refurbish his presidency since April, when he sent the President a now famous lengthy memo describing growing pessimism among the American electorate. In March, for instance, Caddell found that 48% of the people he surveyed called themselves "longterm pessimists," up from 30% in 1975. Other pollsters question Caddell's objectivity, and stress that Carter is partly responsible for the public gloom. Their surveys find that Americans are more pessimistic about the President than about themselves. Responds Caddell...
...back to two-way flow. But to do so would violate the state-dictated traffic pattern and risk the loss of a $1 million highway subsidy. Richard Baker of Newark, Ohio, who used to sell and service electronic equipment, has winkled out enough economic development grants from Washington to refurbish his downtown. With some relish he tells about his chess game against the feds. Washington at first demanded that contractors on two projects have at least 10% minority employment on each job-a problem in Newark because the city's 47,000 population is only 1.4% black. Baker persuaded...
...sense of press irresponsibility persists. You can hear it authoritatively from Jerry Rafshoon, the Atlanta advertising man and old friend whom Carter brought in to refurbish the President's image. "We expected the press to give more attention to issues, to be bet ter informed," he complains. Back in 1976 Carter had said to Playboy: "The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a matter of making a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that...
...power cruisers, from 30-ft. sailboats to converted trawlers. At Waldo Point, just north of San Francisco, Sandy White, 32, a businesswoman, lives aboard a 41-year-old, 62-ft. former naval ferry that she bought for $4,500 in 1972 and has since spent some $50,000 to refurbish; it boasts a living room big enough for a central stove, bookshelves and a piano. At Seattle's Shilshole Bay Marina, John Polikowsky, 55, an art teacher, has spent six years building his 44-ft. live-aboard sloop, Panope. "This," he says, "is a good combination of having...