Turn left at Sadat Street and follow the narrow sidewalk to Sadat Tower, a charmless early-1970s apartment-turned-office-building.

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Many inhabitants, former residents of poor, charmless towns, also find a sense of community, of building something new.

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And they have injected a shot of customer-service culture into a charmless sector.

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He is derided as charmless, even by some in his own party, but the martial aspect of opposition politics will suit him.

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The charmless vulgarity of this hybrid comedy blending sketchlike riffing and a tightly plotted crime caper comes alive only when it cuts close to the bone of psychic peril.

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Politician Berezovsky had a lot of charmless features.

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That distinction belongs to Thanksgiving 1990, when George W.'s father dispatched his Secretary of State to Sanaa, the charmless capital city of Yemen, to ensure Yemeni acquiescence in the military action being planned against Iraq.

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But it lacks intellectual fire-power: its policies are flimsy and its two main figures, the twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, are noted for their honesty, but also for their charmless stubbornness and limited grasp of foreign affairs and economics.

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We ascend the narrow wooden stairs (he has plans to widen the staircase, rip out the charmless elevator and flood the place with light) and arrive at the living quarters, decorated almost exclusively with the furniture that Owens has been designing since 2006.

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