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Starting foremost with a grand reopening this Friday, which marks the end of a drastic six-month, $2.5 million face-lifting and identity-altering makeover of what locals stubbornly still call “The West End.”
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And there are definite dollars to be made by locating run-down properties in improving neighborhoods, doing minor cosmetic face-lifting, and either selling or trading up to larger properties.
Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006
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And there are definite dollars to be made by locating run-down properties in improving neighborhoods, doing minor cosmetic face-lifting, and either selling or trading up to larger properties.
Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006
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For instance, the bourgeois press holds forth about the "moderation" of Buthelezi, an influential chief, whom it sees as a potential supporter of plans for giving the country a liberal face-lifting.
RACISM IN ISOLATION 1980
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She'd found out, somewhere, that Conn had been the originator of the municipal face-lifting project.
The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934
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There are certain things there is no face-lifting to it.
News 2011
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Ulthera - a noninvasive face-lifting treatment - with patients in the West Midlands.
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Voilà - a perfectly smooth, face-lifting ponytail.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Voilà - a perfectly smooth, face-lifting ponytail.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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All ended well in the ABAP organizational face-lifting with everybody promising to give his share for the improvement of the amateurs.
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