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  • Ian Duncan Smith says "tons of elderly people" are going to be forced out of their "underoccupied" apartments in run-down housing projects.

    Johann Hari: The Demands of the Deficit Hawks Won't Cure - They'll Kill 2010

  • SHANGHAI—Pundits once mocked Shanghai's Pudong district, a purpose-built version of Manhattan, as overdesigned and underoccupied, evidence in steel and glass of a property bubble of historic proportions.

    Shanghai's Pudong, Once Soulless, Rises Up James T. Areddy 2011

  • OK they may secure the votes of parents of the schools and nurseries affected, but everyone knows we have too many underoccupied schools and the rolls are projected to continue to fall.

    Glasgow NE - Are you local? Jeff 2009

  • The cross-party committee of MPs said that healthier lifestyles and stricter working practices had reduced formal lunching and left Parliament's four main dining rooms underoccupied.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • SHANGHAI-Pundits once mocked Shanghai's Pudong district, a purpose-built version of Manhattan, as overdesigned and underoccupied, evidence in steel and glass of a property bubble of historic proportions.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2011

  • SHANGHAI-Pundits once mocked Shanghai's Pudong district, a purpose-built version of Manhattan, as overdesigned and underoccupied, evidence in steel and glass of a property bubble of historic proportions.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2011

  • You'll help by showing her the reality of what life is like when you are unoccupied or underoccupied.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Sure, you'll find a ragtag bunch of underoccupied men playing cops and robbers hopped up on old photos of Huey Newton and talking about "crackers," titling themselves the "New Black

    The New Republic - All Feed 2010

  • Sure, you'll find a ragtag bunch of underoccupied men playing cops and robbers hopped up on old photos of Huey Newton and talking about "crackers," titling themselves the "New Black

    The New Republic - All Feed 2010

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