Laptops were gaining popularity, but they featured trackballs that got grimy and were easily lost.
"It's not as grimy, it's not as deep and dark as that sounds, " he says.
Nothing could be further from the grimy nightspots of Berlin's past than Bangaluu (Invalidenstrasse 30).
"The shower was grimy, and there were dust bunnies on the floor, " she wrote.
They will not be full of grimy machines manned by men in oily overalls.
At the border, a man opens the boot of his car to reveal four grimy jerrycans.
In Hong Kong, the management suite moved from the tony Central district to a grimy industrial estate.
So to replace Wuhan's grimy old industries, the city is doing its best to encourage new, higher-tech, innovative firms.
The grimy, claustrophobic and cold-looking spaceship Nostromo gives way to a much brighter, more advanced-looking model which creates some issues.
The movie is grimy, crude, and affecting, in both its locations (as bleak as you might expect) and its plot.
Mugging incessantly and stalking around in grimy rags, Lloyd broadly enacts Azdak's eloquent craziness in a series of satirical courtroom scenes.
Jinze turned out to be a bustling provincial township within the city limits, filled with grimy concrete-block housing and shabby stores.
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Kure, a grimy shipbuilding town down the coast from Hiroshima, was home to the Imperial Naval Academy (still an officer school).
Seated in her high-ceilinged office in the grimy downtown Municipal Building, Stark says her job is to make Bolofsky's site unnecessary.
His pants hang low on his waist, fitted for a man three sizes bigger, and his grimy white sneakers have no laces.
More recently, on a tour of refugee camps in Macedonia, he won hearts with the way he picked up and hugged grimy Albanian children.
Mexico-born developer Jose de Jesus Legaspi suggests that Mexicans come to malls because they find them more appealing than the somewhat grimy, and sometimes crime-ridden, traditional downtowns.
The "detergent" action of soap comes from its ability to attach to oily, grimy surfaces, with the "water-hating" end breaking up molecules at that surface.
They are all farmers, thin and wiry, dressed in ill-fitting blue jackets and caps that are grimy and stained from their work in the fields.
Japanese designers have transformed the previously grimy space into a light-filled community centre by partially removing the outer walls, replacing them with glass and lining it with books.
While the monied hob-nobbed around cosmopolitan London, the Black Country got grimy producing the country's wealth, and perhaps as a consequence, its citizens were regarded as dull.
Suddenly, mamas were ditching their Latina sitters left and right in exchange for grimy after-school programs and college students trying to make an extra buck toward tuition.
Andy Capp is reassuringly unchanging, living in a grimy north of England that no longer exists, wearing the sort of flat hat that is no longer common.
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The trains and their passengers were relegated to grimy basements.
After hours trying, the only way your correspondent could exchange money was with a group of young toughs in a grimy alley in a run-down corner of the city.
But she may have learned some of her most memorable lessons as a young prosecutor, following police into abandoned tenements and tracking down witnesses on the grimy streets of New York.
Successes in privatisation, such as the recent sale of Sidex, a failing steel plant in the grimy Danube delta town of Galati, to an Anglo-Indian company, have been offset by failures.
Casting highly regarded indie rockers and filling the soundtrack with their songs, Hawley movingly roots their music in a way of life as well as in the grimy urban landscapes they inhabit.
Some experts are betting that in many parts of the country digging deep into one's pocket for a thick wad of crumpled, grimy bank notes will soon be a thing of the past.
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