Some of their tricks were old-school buying profitable but run-down companies rich in tax-loss carry-forwards, for example.
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Wilde died in 1900, in a run-down Paris hotel, at the age of forty-six.
The Park51 space, a former Burlington Coat factory, is a five-story, mildly run-down building.
Whereas Wertkauf was well-known and profitable, Interspar was weak and operated mostly run-down stores.
Since getting her appendix removed last fall, Ellen seemed more run-down and tired than usual.
Now they talk about unemployment, run-down public services and even, in hushed tones, poverty.
Public health in New Orleans before Katrina meant treatment in run-down, understaffed public hospitals.
Work started on the site of a run-down 1960s shopping centre and derelict maisonettes in 2010.
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Moss Side, a run-down district once famous for gun crime, is also growing exceptionally quickly.
In Syracuse you can buy a near-palace for what you'd pay for a run-down bungalow in Palo Alto.
Run-down for years, the city centre is now sprouting new buildings, and house prices have jumped by 15%.
In the run-down Havana neighbourhood that Carmen left, it is easy to see why so many Cubans go.
He had bought it on the cheap because this pioneer resort was run-down and had lost its 1930s glamour.
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Mark Schoenebaum, the healthcare research analyst at ISI Group, gave a thorough run-down of what to expect from illuminate.
See, in order to "educate" consumers, Best Buy has a run-down of specs along with definitions of each property.
Blackstone's strategy is to invest opportunistically: it looks for empty and run-down buildings that it can improve and sell.
Together with Steimle, he worked with Marriott International to turn a run-down Howard Johnson's in Ocala into a Marriott Courtyard.
Earlier this month the National Audit Office (NAO) found decommissioning projects were over budget and that storage buildings were "run-down".
In 1961 he met Zen master Shunryu Suzuki, who was running a small Buddhist temple in a run-down former synagogue.
Both her career and personal life went downhill in later years and she ended her days in a run-down apartment.
Boris Fedorov, a colleague who later became finance minister, recalls the modesty of his accommodation: a cramped, run-down communal flat.
Millions of pounds of lottery money has been given to arts groups to help refurbish run-down theatres, galleries and cinemas.
In Cerro, one of central Havana's most run-down districts, the Padro family is hoping their own petition will be accepted.
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Leigh's domain is the seedy bed-sit, the run-down council estate, where stilted conversation, casual violence and loveless sex are the norm.
The timing of the job losses announcement has been dictated by the run-down of steel work on the yard's remaining orders.
So at age 20 he joined with a friend to buy a run-down record store in a semirural suburb called Packenham.
By the mid-1990s the strip, which runs past the University of Washington, was looking decidedly run-down, and was overrun with beggars.
Sadly for Detroit, the scandal comes as the city is working hard to shed its image as crime-ridden, run-down and corrupt.
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