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  • The buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, thus improving property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.

    Wayne Trujillo: The Highlands and Harlem: Has Pollyanna Been Displaced by Gentrification? Wayne Trujillo 2011

  • The buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, thus improving property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.

    Wayne Trujillo: The Highlands and Harlem: Has Pollyanna Been Displaced by Gentrification? Wayne Trujillo 2011

  • For the unskilled, it can take up to 45 minutes of strenuous upper- and lower-body muscle manipulation to ascend and descend.

    Come, Climb a Tree (Just This Once) Jo Piazza 2011

  • "The pipeline will facilitate the implementation of our 20-year strategic development plan, to provide energy and jobs to power our economy, and lift us into an upper- and middle-income country," he said.

    Woodside Gas Plan Worries East Timor Chun Han Wong 2011

  • The buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, thus improving property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.

    Wayne Trujillo: The Highlands and Harlem: Has Pollyanna Been Displaced by Gentrification? Wayne Trujillo 2011

  • We had this insane multi-cultural crew of upper- and lower-class kids of all different races.

    A Brooklyn Rap Crew Defies Its Name Nick Neyland 2011

  • I wanted to make sure I was not out of my mind, so I looked up the definition of gentrification: "the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals..."

    Christopher Caen: Friday Finish: Sheriff Mirkarimi Indicted Christopher Caen 2012

  • The upper- and lowercase alphabet was written on it, along with basic words.

    Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

  • Among upper- and middle-class urbanites, the view on “new” vegetables was that they were “scary and disgusting until proven otherwise by a famous chef.”

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • FINE MOTOR cut and paste shapes as directed by adult grip a pencil like an adult print recognizable upper- and lower-case letters, plus numbers and shapes write his name, words, and short sentences; use some punctuation; understand that spaces go between words make horizontal lines, vertical lines, and diagonal lines color within lines use computer keyboard tie his shoes fold paper diagonally draw a person with six parts

    Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010

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