Maxx and Marshalls chain, to fix up existing stores and to expand and refurbish warehouses and offices.
As the real estate market stabilizes further, homeowners will be less hesitant to fix up their primary residence.
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Mr. Reiner started by buying old houses to fix up and resell.
The scheme involves housing associations purchasing vacant or repossessed homes to fix up and then sell on the market at a discount.
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SRA, has recently complained that it takes him eight weeks before he is able to fix up an appointment to see Ian McAllister.
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Our investigation found that Southwest Airlines, US Airways, Jet Blue and Frontier all pay Aeroman in El Salvador to fix up some of their aircraft.
Everyone's heard about their friends who have just had the Polish plumber in to fix up the bathroom or been served a latte by a Latvian on their way to work.
When the last renter moved out of the bungalow in 2009, Ms. Prettyman, living in a condo in nearby Encinitas, took up her father's offer to fix up the house for her.
It could take millions to fix up the structure to your and the government's liking. (Watch for asbestos and lead-based paint.) You'll also need money for insurance, and that includes liability insurance for the rabid lighthouse fans that will show up wanting to climb the lighthouse tower.
At Boston Scientific, the question is why is the guy who was supposed to fix things up leaving?
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Ironically, the hardest part about lighthouse living isn't even finding the money and time to fix one up.
Lee also scoured for a new president to help fix up Red Lobster.
Adding some shares of Home Depot to fix-up your portfolio makes sense.
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But if most of these men and women waited for their friends to fix them up or for someone to approach them on the street, they'd most likely be alone forever.
After five years working for Great Experiment, he and his wife, Stephanie, had saved just enough money to buy a big fixer-upper in Oak Park, without being able to fix it up.
Remember, this case was not just about the government taking property to expand much-needed infrastructure, or confiscating condemned, dilapidated property in order to fix it up or turn it into a library.
Give makerspaces and hackerspaces a chance to occupy and fix up some of these homes.
Yet drug researchers have failed so far to come up with drugs to fix the defects, despite intense efforts.
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Regulators have prodded Wall Street to come up with ways to fix the contagion within their own ranks, but those efforts have fizzled.
"I think it sent a powerful message to the organization that we held up the launch to fix this, " said Mr. Betts.
Starting in 2006, Exelon rolled out 2, 300 ruggedized Panasonic laptops to its utility repairmen in an effort to automate work orders and speed up the time to fix electrical outages.
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No time to fix your make-up before someone takes your picture with the SP-620UZ?
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The consortium has been set up to fix pay and terms and conditions as well as creating a regional pay system.
Baker said volunteers planned to get back to work Friday and fix up damaged parts of the palace, working through the weekend if needed.
On July 8, tech heavyweights including Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems teamed up to fix a fundamental flaw in the Internet, one that could allow any Web user to be invisibly redirected to fraudulent sites designed to steal banking passwords or install malicious software on users' PCs.
The coffee industry needs that type of pathological collaboration to shore up vulnerable coffee farming communities and to ensure that all of us java junkies continue to get our morning fix as the planet heats up.
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At a briefing Monday, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Pamela Olson said President George W. Bush has asked the Treasury to study the AMT problem and come up with a permanent fix to be proposed in next year's budget.
Once traffic is restored--it could take six months or more to get back up to prestorm levels--the long-term fix for New Orleans lies in the ancient coastal wetlands that suck up the rain and storm surges that periodically imperil the city.
Will our flawed hero measure up to the fix in which he finds himself?
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