From the experience of other places, we know that casinos and gambling are instruments of blight — blighted neighborhoods, the blighted lives of problem gamblers and the blighted politics of elected officials who can't, or won't, find a better path to economic development.
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However, the party has been blighted by dramatic family feuds.
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Delays and corruption have blighted work on the new cosmodrome.
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Yemen's economic infrastructure has also been blighted during the war.
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Its blighted windows and dirt marks show signs of age.
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"It's starting to look like a blighted neighborhood," she said.
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His first season in England had been blighted by injury.
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The city has demolished about 20,000 blighted homes since 2014.
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Alas, like the country itself, Congolese music is blighted by corruption.
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So thrice blighted and the opposite of useful: A fiddly gimmick.
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They also complain about noise, lower property values and blighted views.
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Dogs are an anomaly of goodness in an otherwise blighted universe.
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Would no one from the blighted orphan world have crossed back?
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The once-blighted area has seen a recent surge in development.
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It later spread further north and blighted the harvest in Italy.
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Black Milwaukee districts are interspersed with vacant lots and abandoned, blighted houses.
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Heavy industry is in bad shape, blighted by overcapacity and falling demand.
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Nevertheless, it is clear that Latin America is particularly blighted by violence.
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About 56 percent of those foreclosures are now blighted or abandoned properties.
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The city of Detroit currently has between 60,000 to 80,000 blighted properties.
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But its progress has been blighted by terrorist attacks and economic decline.
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But it also passes blighted homes, empty lots and depressed property values.
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There was no more blighted area in the heart of the Big Apple.
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The tech industry has been blighted by legal disputes over patents and copyrights.
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Many of his restaurants helped revive blighted downtown areas: entrepreneurship as transformative politics.
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The rot went deeper than the corrosive politics that caused wars and blighted peace.
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Mr Boggs's career was blighted by fruitless appeals to try and get them back.
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The area is not lined with high-rise projects or blighted by abandoned parcels.
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And Britain is also blighted with high rates of the sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhea.
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Once-blighted parking lots have been replaced with apartments, retail, hotels and office space.
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The houses, however, continued to be vandalized since their rediscovery within the blighted community.
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Our approach to the farm takes us through one of Philadelphia's most blighted areas.
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In the blighted West Baltimore neighborhood where Mr. Gray grew up, protests were growing.
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Hundreds of thousands of lives "will be blighted by homelessness this winter," she added.
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The disavowal of blighted Brutalist structures is a rejection of the unconditional love of imperfection.
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By the early nineties, it had fallen into decline, blighted with unemployment, alcoholism, and banditry.
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Some 10,800 blighted houses have been torn down and another 103,500 will be removed soon.
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Small brewers have feared a hops shortage after adverse weather blighted last summer's European harvest.
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The Asian nation, which has been blighted by pollution, is the world's largest car market.
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They hark back to plans from the 1980s meant to steer capital into blighted neighborhoods.
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He is cleareyed about what the banal anti-Semitism coursing through blighted projects has wrought.
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She narrates as the landscape outside changes from stately brick homes to blighted, vacant storefronts.
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To the west, on a blighted section of Market Street, are Uber's and Twitter's headquarters.
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No towering financial collapse marred the landscape; no Madoff or Enron blighted the business page.
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Editorial The Sheridan Expressway has blighted its corner of the South Bronx since the 1960s.
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And what it's leaving in its wake is a blighted landscape of death and destruction.
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Some 10,800 blighted houses have been torn down since 2014; another 2,500 will be removed soon.
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There are more blighted houses behind him, and hard-staring passersby walking along trash-strewn sidewalks.
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Homesteading can and should be used by the government today, especially in blighted areas like Detroit.
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Labour-voting former mining valleys and blighted post-industrial towns seemed to be swinging towards Leave.
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Monday's performance, conducted by Charles Barker, was blighted by poor brass playing in the opening fanfare.
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On his book tour, Mallory has said that depression "blighted, blotted, and blackened" his adult life.
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Wilkinsburg is a largely blighted suburb just east of Pittsburgh with a population of about 16,000.
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In the years since 1995, Mr. Marshall has painted many gardens, blighted and edenic, ambiguously shaded.
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Trilobites A hand-held device could help farmers identify blighted plants, and perhaps reduce agricultural losses.
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There are still many crime-ridden areas blighted for years by fear and neglect in America.
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The island where he and the other animals live has been blighted by a nuclear accident.
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The health scares, which have sickened about 500 people in 13 different states, have blighted Chipotle's reputation.
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S. trade conflict and tensions with its powerful neighbor Russia, the region is blighted by political upheaval.
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Howard Stringer's tenure at Sony was blighted by, among other things, a collapse in the stock price.
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The cost of a single American life blighted by the virus, by one estimate, could be $10m.
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And its goal — a city less blighted by rustling blossoms of abandoned plastic — could not be nobler.
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Like the fallen first man and woman (indeed, like all humans), Drake is blighted by self-consciousness.
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He snapped up every house on two blighted blocks of Baltimore and tried, unsuccessfully, to flip them.
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Baltimore is a city blighted still by the failed war on drugs that began in the 1970s.
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Beyond the city's core, blocks are dotted with blighted buildings, some appearing to be overtaken by nature.
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On a recent afternoon, Mr. Carson strolled through a blighted, predominantly black neighborhood just south of downtown.
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Staring in puzzlement at tables holding blighted stalks of wheat, she leaned down to swat a bug.
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The original game was also blighted with a terrible, tinny synthesized soundtrack, which is now fully orchestrated.
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Others, whose lives are blighted by childlessness or genetic disease, argue passionately for the right to alleviate suffering.
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Across the country, the landscape is blighted by stalled construction projects — hospitals, schools, factories and a soccer stadium.
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The Balkans are blighted by low growth and sky-high youth unemployment, and citizens vote with their feet.
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One major hurdle, however, has been product quality, often blighted by low salaries, poor training and sketchy suppliers.
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China, blighted by air pollution, has been a keen supporter of NEVs, requiring automakers to meet sales quotas.
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Haiti is still one of the world's poorest countries, blighted by natural disasters, political upheaval and poor security.
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The Sunshine Coast in Australia, specifically, is being blighted with a huge number of beached, blobby jellyfish invaders.
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You have blighted homes that actually look quite similar to homes you saw in New Orleans post-Katrina.
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That remark entrenched Sarkozy's reputation as a bully in the suburbs blighted by crime and unemployment outside Paris.
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A wide range of industries are blighted by overcapacity and businesses, fretful about the future, are hoarding cash.
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Corruption has ruined this country, dooming a generation of Ukrainians to poor education, unsafe streets and blighted careers.
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A left-behind working class lashed out at decades of deindustrialization, blighted communities and high levels of immigration.
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China, blighted by air pollution, has been a keen supporter of NEVs, requiring automakers to meet production quotas.
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Violence overshadows polls Wednesday's poll was also blighted by the electoral participation of militant groups and terrorist attacks.
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But what if the help is blighted because the people you turn to are, at best, subconsciously racist?
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They would probably be pushed out of the city to blighted, segregated towns divorced from jobs and opportunity.
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But blighted by persistently high unemployment, excess capacity and weak investment, the economy is still struggling to grow.
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In blighted urban areas—West Baltimore and elsewhere—it's nearly impossible to find a block untouched by the epidemic.
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Instead its move highlighted the disagreements on migration that have blighted relations among the 28 member states for years.
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The Village Board declared the 2,800-acre site "blighted" and bought out homeowners or seized properties through eminent domain.
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However, Detroit was filled with abandoned houses and blighted buildings following the housing crisis as real estate prices plummeted.
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For those familiar with the city's precarious finances, bad schools and blighted neighbourhoods, this might seem a strange answer.
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In the past, those funds have been used to repair or demolish blighted homes and pay for homeless shelters.
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It's the world's biggest autos market and is blighted by choking air pollution, traffic congestion and often erratic driving.
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That could lead to a default, or to a return of the hyperinflation that blighted the decade after 1985.
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But the development has been in the making since 2009, transforming a once-blighted neighborhood into an upscale destination.
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On July 29, a blighted and abandoned house in St. Louis will briefly stand in two locations at once.
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The conversion of blighted places into space to play speaks to the special resilience of this postwar, postwall city.
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Kenan Fikri saw first-hand how a once-prosperous region can become blighted by technology innovation and economic downturn.
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The thinking goes that a shiny new sports megastructure will spur a renaissance in blighted areas of the city.
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They built illegal lofts in abandoned warehouses and lived together in gritty, blighted neighborhoods that weren't zoned for occupancy.
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But the on-field achievements were blighted by allegations of corruption among Kenyan team leaders and senior government officials.
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A province of 100 million on the flat, brown expanse of central China, Henan suffers from a blighted reputation.
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As has happened elsewhere, there will surely be objections from those who feel their ocean views are being blighted.
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But what should have been his most fruitful years as an architect were blighted by his country's tumultuous history.
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The Lithuanian director Rimas Tuminas reimagines this story of blighted ambitions and unrequited love without a samovar in sight.
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A blueberry farm near the Indiana border that would offer easy pickings if they were ever blighted with hunger.
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Tullow Oil tumbled 9.1% as the British energy giant continues to be blighted by problems with its Ghanaian operation.
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Tutti eruptions that felt crude rather than grand blighted the orchestra's two most recent programs at David Geffen Hall.
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Picture the riotous explosion of joy that erupted on the Blitz-blighted streets of London on May 8, 1945.
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However, his spell in Paris has been blighted by injuries which have kept him out of key Champions League matches.
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Malik Divers knows the healing power of horses, especially for young men growing up in the blighted neighborhoods of Philadelphia.
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In the wake of AKP's loss, it claimed the election was blighted by voter fraud and called for a rerun.
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Advocacy groups faulted banks for lending practices that they claimed blighted the city and contributed to substandard housing and segregation.
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South-western Ontario and the Niagara peninsula are as blighted by industrial decay as depressed parts of Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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Yet mayors still don silly hats and dance a merry jig to get them to move to their blighted areas.
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Maybe you have had the fantasy: Chuck your day job to teach in a public school in a blighted neighborhood.
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AT&T opened a call centre and hired 0003 workers from the city's most blighted districts, to foster economic opportunities.
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It's a vibrant community with a history of activism, but it's also deeply impoverished, and blighted by pollution and violence.
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The commission described a country blighted by ghettos, neighbourhoods in which too many citizens were trapped by poverty and race.
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But some experiments to move families from poverty-blighted neighbourhoods have worked—and have showed the terrible cost of inaction.
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Greece, its economy blighted by the euro zone debt crisis, was expected to be the main beneficiary of the scheme.
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Fetterman is the mayor of Braddock, a small, economically blighted borough near Pittsburgh, with a population of less than 3,000.
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For one thing, fans of, say, Michigan protest too much when they wring hands over blighted traditions and diluted product.
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Wilkinsburg is a poorer, largely blighted suburb just east of Pittsburgh that is known for drug trafficking and gun violence.
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Rather than attempting to revive blighted places by sending checks to people, such public assistance should be determined by places.
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Idlib has also been blighted by fighting between the dominant faction - fighters formerly affiliated to al Qaeda - and other rebels.
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Addams moved her family possessions, including the paintings, books and heirloom silver, into a large mansion in a blighted district.
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Tax credits aimed at revitalizing abandoned, polluted or blighted areas can encourage development that eventually expands a city's tax base.
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Many younger Spaniards, whose lives have been blighted by austerity and recession, will not easily regain faith in the traditional parties.
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Mara learned she had a blighted ovum, when a fertilized egg attaches to the uterine wall but the embryo doesn't grow.
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Khan said European cities had been "blighted" recently by extremist attacks from both the far right and so-called Islamist movements.
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But the evidence for a building problem was hiding in plain sight in the form of blighted cities, communities and states.
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He endows his blighted characters with an instinctive gift for poetry that gropes for patterns in a random and unforgiving universe.
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On December 1st China gave another hint that it was getting tougher on the drug that has blighted America (see article).
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It would be almost a guarantee of more of the partisan rowing and deadlocked government that has blighted Mr Obama's presidency.
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In 1959, the Community Redevelopment Agency, a governmental organization tasked with clearing slums and blighted areas, decided to revitalize Bunker Hill.
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First, severe power shortages have long blighted the nation, and renewable sources cannot offer the daylong, year-round power it needs.
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The demolition of a blighted property increases the value of a home 2700 feet away by 4.2%, according to one study.
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City debt, a lack of corporate investment, rotten schools, violence, racial segregation, corruption—all have long blighted America's third-biggest city.
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More worrying still is that the bloodletting is popular with Filipinos, many of whose lives are blighted by poverty and crime.
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Another study in March by the University of Wisconsin looked at one especially blighted zip code—53206—that abuts Sherman Park.
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I have yet to see an article anywhere discussing reparations for the women who endured ruined careers or blighted financial prospects.
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Our reporter spoke with the athletes who have forced their leaders to reckon with the sport's blighted culture and systemic abuse.
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His satisfaction was blighted only by the disapproval expressed by his friend Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots.
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It's still disconcerting to me how outsiders, even fellow Midwesterners, feel about my home state: that it's blighted, abandoned, despair-inducing.
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The school district also teamed up with a Richmond city program that refurbishes blighted houses and sells them at below-market rates.
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Houses that have sat for long enough to become blighted are often saddled with significant tax arrears, reducing their appeal to investors.
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Drawing the wrong lessons about the past can prompt charges of "historical nihilism", an offence that sees museums punished and careers blighted.
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The camera finds startling beauty even in obscene poverty, but the script presents a trickier portrait of blighted opportunity and personal responsibility.
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A third, Jean de Paracol, in southern France, markets a service to help small businesses that have been blighted by black magic.
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" He also proposed "tax holidays" to spur inner city investment and a tax break for foreign companies that relocate to "blighted neighborhoods.
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Greece, its economy blighted by the euro zone debt crisis, has asked for 480 million euros to help cope with 100,000 migrants.
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Mr Liu has been a strong proponent of such structural reforms as cutting off funding for state-owned industries blighted by overcapacity.
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Similar ventures to turn blighted sites into parks have been successful in places as far afield as the waterfront in Helskini, Finland.
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Upon coming across a tree with blighted leaves, they note the coordinates, collect samples and send them to a laboratory for identification.
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SHORT-HANDED Baltimore, a city of 622,000 people, has long been blighted by deep-seated poverty and drug crime in some neighborhoods.
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That's when the scrappers came in, ravaging the historic building for metal, destroying its ornate beauty and leaving it blighted and decrepit.
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He pointed to a boardwalk dotted with vape stores and dollar shops, the blighted blocks and the people struggling with substance abuse.
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But be forewarned about the city's notorious traffic jams and graffiti-smeared streets that give much of the city a blighted feel.
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That is 30 years longer than an infant born in the most blighted parts of Englewood, farther south on the same line.
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Say you go to Italy, and the first five days are blighted by rain, but the last two are ablaze with sunshine.
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The population is blighted by illiteracy; according to the last census, only half the state's women are literate, well below the national average.
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John Woodcock, who represents Barrow and Furness on the north-west coast, spoke of the "blighted and besieged people" of his embattled constituency.
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Here was a zone so blighted only a decade ago it could have been used as a set for a post-apocalyptic flick.
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Record-low rainfall in some regions and successive seasons of above-average temperatures have blighted vast tracts of Australia's grazing and crop land.
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Today Navy SEAL medics reputedly train in Flint because it offers the country's closest approximation to a metropolis blighted by years of war.
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In some parts of the world shopping malls are being blighted as their customers move online and are served from vast warehouses instead.
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In Nagapattinam, in the Cauvery river delta region of southeast India, drought and irregular rainfall have blighted lives for about a decade now.
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But it is a high-risk strategy for a nation that prospered by staying clear of the turmoil that has blighted the region.
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Today, Pripyat is still relatively abandoned, aside from tour groups that walk along designated pathways and gather inside blighted kindergartens, hospitals, and schools.
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Community campaign The first Latin Americans arrived at the market around the turn of the century, and recall an area blighted by crime.
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But more than 10,000 blighted properties have been demolished, removing dangerous eyesores and usually allowing neighbors to buy the vacant lots for $100.
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Refugees have purchased rundown houses in blighted urban neighborhoods and spruced them up, bolstering both the real estate market and the tax base.
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I have seen a blighted small town use a corrupt sheriff and judge to run off a business owned by a black man.
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He is the most senior Nigerian politician to have been held to account for the corruption that has blighted Africa's most populous nation.
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The show portrayed a dystopian reality for students, who faced violence and poverty, living amidst blighted neighborhoods riddled with drugs, crime and decay.
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Its school system is troubled, public transportation into and inside Detroit is scant, and many neighborhoods remain blighted, with some 20,000 abandoned homes.
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President Donald Trump suffers from a toadstool-shaped penis and is blighted by "Yeti pubes," according to porn star Stormy Daniels' forthcoming book.
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The post offered responsibility, money for college and stability in a childhood blighted by frequent moves, brushes with financial ruin and his father's drinking.
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Loan impairment fell 42 percent to $348 million, a closely-watched metric for StanChart which has been blighted by bad loans in recent years.
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That will transform about 50 mostly blighted blocks between the city's uptown and core into a mix of residential units, retail space, and hotels.
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He seems almost incapable of mentioning black Americans without also mentioning the "inner city," which he strictly describes as a blighted, crime-ridden hellscape.
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Most are blighted by single-party rule, or by a political churn which does not seem to have much impact on local power structures.
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If we don't shake up the historical thinking, nothing will improve or change for our communities, and they will remain blighted and non-productive.
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As of now, no one knows how to break the grip of low incomes, blighted towns and popular anger in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Teddy worked on education and health, and Bobby focused on community development, especially a public-private partnership to revitalize Brooklyn's blighted Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson again pledged to end Brexit uncertainty that has blighted the country's business environment since the EU referendum in June 2016.
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Mummies came back to life, curses blighted those who excavated the sites, and pyramids became elaborate mazes of death traps that housed unknowable riches.
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NASTYbook (and its blighted follow-ups, Another NASTYbook and Yet Another NASTYbook) went out of print, though there was TV interest for a while.
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On Coney Island, in a once blighted area near the boardwalk, a nine-story rental project that will house homeless veterans is under construction.
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If Trump fails, as he almost always does, to rise to the occasion, a great many Americans will see their lives blighted, perhaps permanently.
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As Metro lurches from leafy enclaves to blighted neighborhoods, the subway is the highly imperfect vehicle for Washingtonians' rage at their city's perennial problems.
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For 30 years, media and politicians have scapegoated both Europe and migrants as catch-all explanations for why people's lives are blighted and hopeless.
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Although the project stood to displace residents in a community, the city council noted as blighted in 1999 the resulting backlash halted the plans.
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The migrants appeared to be mainly from North Africa, the Middle East and Asia, many of them fleeing countries blighted by wars and poverty.
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Folks in blighted urban and suburban communities are feeling and seeing it, too — the resurgence of a worrisome uptick in violent crime and murders.
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Cultural Studies Everyone has heard grim tales of lives blighted by online gaming, stories that sound like urban legends even when they actually happened.
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Burger joints, sandwich shops, the aforementioned Southern stalwart: all blighted—in just the past two weeks—by unwanted visitors busting in through the ceiling.
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Some neighborhoods there have suffered population declines of 80 percent and more, said Bey, setting up a cycle of decline that has blighted entire communities.
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The war and a series of other conflicts that preceded it have blighted a beautiful country, leaving it one of the poorest in the world.
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Taking place in a blighted landscape of fire, crime, lethargy and unease, the story investigates the intricacies of intimacy when love has long since diminished.
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Argentina today has a reformist government largely intent on doing the right thing, rather than the populist administrations that blighted its recent past (see article).
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But while the occasional player saw their fortune skyrocket, many were shot down by competitors, arrested and incarcerated, or simply fell back into blighted neighborhoods.
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Somaliland is blighted by youth unemployment of over 60%, and its worst drought in years has affected 1.5 million people - over 30% of the population.
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The program was designed by Congress in the 1990s to bring foreign money into rural and blighted urban areas to spark development and job growth.
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Whilst there are huge political and strategic problems in this blighted region, one must give thought to the millions of desperate people behind the headlines.
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Brazil's economy has been blighted this year by high unemployment, weak industrial production, economic troubles in neighboring Argentina and a darkening outlook for global growth.
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In the blighted hellscape of the lawless future, we meet our protagonist, whose family has been brutally killed in the local warlord's iPad recycling plant.
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Neza's reputation as the world's largest slum, coined when its population was combined with two other blighted areas decades ago, no longer applies, they said.
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He had spent much of his career seeing his hospitals blighted by unsafe practices that, in the paper-based world, he could do little about.
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If the reason for living is preparing to stay dead a long time, these blighted souls might want to dig their graves a little faster.
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One of the poorest nations in the Americas with one of the world's highest murder rates, Honduras has been blighted with years of gang violence.
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Nyusi denies allegations his family have benefited unduly from state funds and has pledged to crackdown on corruption that has blighted Mozambique in the past.
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Then cut a tidy head hole, and voilà, you've performed a common courtesy to all who might have been blighted by the sight of you.
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Along this blighted landscape parents walked children home wearing big buttons proclaiming "SAFE WAY" as both warning to thugs and an incantation to the Almighty.
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Act II is blighted by a crippled beggar who turns out not to be a cripple, yet reappears later with crutches after Tybalt has died.
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Feral cats aren't the only opportunists to seek out wildfire-blighted places: Hawks and other natural predators also seize the chance to simplify their hunt.
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The Beijing West Railway Station, in particular, is an unsightly monument to poor planning that opened in 1996, and its construction was blighted by corruption.
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The projection for this year represented an increase of 4.7 percent on last year, due to a long-running copper strike that blighted 2017 production.
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And slowly but surely, formerly blighted towns and cities are coming back to life, with the help of a younger class of real estate buyers.
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The most important thing, though, is this: The fear of the pain that had blighted her since she was 11 years old is finally gone.
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Soured bank loans are expected to remain at high levels as the Turkish economy remains blighted by recession, a weak lira and depleted foreign currency reserves.
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China's over-burdened health-care system is blighted by crowded hospitals, corruption and tension between patients and staff, and the government has struggled to enforce reforms.
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Least successful of all was a duck leg stew, an entree blighted by poorly trimmed duck, scant presence of mushrooms, soggy parsnip chips and burned toast.
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Carson told CNN's Jeremy Diamond he wanted Trump to see areas in the city that are now blighted but were prosperous when Carson was a boy.
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Reliability issues with the Renault engine blighted Ricciardo and Red Bull last year but Sunday's performance left the 26-year-old flashing his usual toothy grin.
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His plans include a new railway in Mindanao, a troubled southern island blighted by insurgencies, and the revamping of Clark airport, to the north of Manila.
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Rafael Nadal barreled through his opening match of the China Open as he sought to redeem his injury-blighted season with a strong run in Beijing.
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It has been a particularly tough slog in the Caribbean, where soccer has been blighted by corruption, and the women's game especially has been widely dismissed.
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Late one night he was drinking beer with his friends in an old car he was restoring when Ms. Russo came walking down the blighted street.
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In the wake of the 2008 housing crisis, opportunistic investors swooped in with hopes of profiting on tens of thousands of blighted homes across the country.
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Several other projects of similar breadth are in the works, including a 230,103-seat soccer stadium just north of the river in the blighted Overtown neighborhood.
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Her husband relaxed on the other side of the small school—a simple, but crowded space housed on a single floor of blighted low-rise shophouse.
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An interview which shows the glaring conflict of interests which blighted this contest from the beginning: the hand-picked opponent, generous refereeing and the hometown decision.
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Torres has for weeks led the race to succeed President Jimmy Morales, a conservative former television host whose term has been blighted by accusations of corruption.
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The currency's sustained weakening showed a lack of investor confidence in Latin America's No. 3 economy, which is blighted by one of the world's highest inflation rates.
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Carson shepherded Trump through inner city Detroit, to a church there and then for a drive through blighted neighborhoods before a brief stop by Carson's childhood home.
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Life expectancy has risen in virtually every country, bar a handful that are blighted by war or disease, and the global mortality rate has plummeted by 28%.
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Once a Victorian resort, it's now blighted by noise from the neighboring LaGuardia Airport and the construction of a sewage treatment plant on a former picnic site.
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Even the Live Aid performance, which is loud, and bold, and powerful, is blighted by the nagging thought that one could just find the original on YouTube.
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More broadly, Ukraine is still trying to recover from Russia's annexation of its Crimea region in early 2014 and tackle corruption that has long blighted the country.
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Mr. Ramirez and local officials, particularly Patchogue's mayor, Paul Pontieri, struggled for years to repair the damage of the Lucero killing and of the blighted Levy era.
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The same year voters in Castle Pines, Colorado in the south metro Denver area rejected the notion that the town is "blighted," voting to dissolve its URA.
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The city has hollowed out: About 20,000 properties among the city's 56,000 total are vacant or blighted, many of them foreclosed for failure to pay property taxes.
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It will not have gone unnoticed elsewhere in Eastern Europe, blighted by corruption and cosy ties between business and politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Her book contains a poignant description of her blighted childhood, dominated by his slow descent into addiction and ill health, and of her new life in Pittsburgh.
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Between the blighted ports of games like Command and Conquer: Red Alert and Battle for Middle Earth, there was a sizable void that no one dared to fill.
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The battalion and its rugby team offered sources of Maori pride during post-war decades blighted by poverty, discrimination and the decline of Maori rural society and culture.
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Central bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda aims to break the deflationary mindset that has blighted Japan for decades and get the economy moving, but his compatriots are compulsive savers.
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Allegations this week that tennis authorities failed to deal with widespread match-fixing has rocked the game, following similar allegations that have blighted cricket, football and other sports.
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Instead of plaudits ahead of the phone's planned launch, the South Korean conglomerate has been blighted by a handful of technology journalists reporting breaks, bulges and blinking screens.
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Nerves still jangle at election time, especially when the outcome is likely to be close, patronage and corruption are pervasive, and rigging and violence have blighted previous ballots.
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The $235 million Broad nabbed for his museum's in 2000 was intended for blighted areas of Los Angeles—specifically to build affordable housing and clean up toxic waste.
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The Facebook comparison has blighted Twitter and its failure to grow, for example, and it is weighing on the minds of investors in newly public firm Snap, too.
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They called for an early presidential election, which Maduro would likely lose as his popularity sinks along with an economy blighted by triple-digit inflation and food shortages.
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When what you're doing is taking a blighted house, piece by piece, out of the city of Detroit, and putting it on display in Europe, it's not okay.
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Investors will be on the lookout for the bank's outlook, at a time when serious concerns regarding electricity utility Eskom have blighted sentiment towards Africa's most industrialized economy.
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T=14. Daniel Sturridge — £16 million: England and Liverpool striker Sturridge has seen his career blighted by injuries, but is still one of British football's most marketable assets.
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That prompted Del Potro, whose own career has been blighted by a string of injuries, to climb over the net and offer some comfort to his stricken opponent.
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Allegations this week that tennis authorities failed to deal with widespread match-fixing has rocked the game, following similar allegations that have blighted cricket, soccer and other sports.
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Now he has cast himself in Olivier's archetypal role of Archie Rice, the down-on-his-luck music hall performer at the blighted heart of John Osborne's play.
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Earnings were blighted by further losses at the investment banking divisions, especially global markets which have faced restrained client trading and taken write-downs on certain trading positions.
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In Indianapolis, the nonprofit artists collective Big Car is bringing life back to a previously blighted downtown neighborhood by rehabbing abandoned houses for use as housing for artists.
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After that, he started Venture for America, a nonprofit designed to help people in economically blighted regions found startups as a means of growing jobs and the economy.
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Like Iran, another founding member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Venezuela's oil industry has been blighted by mismanagement, unrest, political instability, diplomatic isolation and sanctions.
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The authors were curious about some of the bolder claims being tossed around about urban farming — that it can revitalize blighted neighborhoods, say, or help combat food insecurity.
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The color was used in earlier works including her 1982 "Pink Trash" performance in South Los Angeles, where she replaced debris with pink paper in a blighted neighborhood.
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What's really being exposed in all of these perceived missteps is the American publishing industry's blighted practices, the incestuousness of American celebrity, and the black community's internal conflicts.
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Through Alice's eyes we see, though Matthew doesn't, that his "witches" are women who embody both the fears and the disturbing family secrets that have blighted his life.
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Heads Up In a city long known for its crime problem, increased local efforts have transformed blighted areas into buzzy social hot spots, attracting tourists along the way.
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India's best-known attraction, the Taj Mahal is visited by nearly seven million tourists a year, according to official data, but has been blighted by overcrowding and pollution.
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India's best-known attraction, the Taj Mahal is visited by nearly seven million tourists a year, according to official data, but has been blighted by overcrowding and pollution.
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Though it stands in a country increasingly blighted by terrorism, and though it is named for a man increasingly at odds with the Muslim world, security is light.
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Several sites — including those for equestrian events, shooting and field hockey — were constructed there, heralded as a shining example of how the Olympics can lift a blighted area.
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Indeed, at times Cora seems to be already traversing a future bereft of full freedom—the landscape blighted by proto-Jim Crow, her journey a private Great Migration.
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To date, she added, the company hasn't experienced issues with vandalism which has blighted the launch of bike-sharing services in markets where the on-demand model is new.
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But the end state of each game leaves the world around these cities devoid of the nature that was there at the start, or in some cases, even blighted.
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After eight tough years, of a Democratic government blighted by slow wage growth and, for most of that time, political deadlock imposed by a Republican Congress, voters wanted change.
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Although an embittered, multiply divorced cancer survivor from a family blighted by the Holocaust, Dovaleh can elicit a "laugh of wonder at his precision, his subtlety, his theatrical wisdom".
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The races that could flip the Senate Donald Trump has painted to his supporters a picture of a country pocked with blighted communities, ravaged by entire industries shipped overseas.
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The outcry over affordable housing shortages in America's fastest-growing cities masks an equally devastating problem: persistently high rates of vacant and blighted housing in cities of all sizes.
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This world was mentioned but never seen in Blade Runner, while the new film gives us a landscape that's been blighted by environmental catastrophes and is now largely abandoned.
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"Where a family has a young teenager and they don't want her future to be blighted by this occurrence, they immediately find the resources (for an abortion)," she said.
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Mr. Gray was arrested by police officers after he fled from them in the blighted neighborhood of Sandtown and was eventually placed, shackled and handcuffed, into a police wagon.
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Ever since the ancient Greeks set Cassandra loose in their tragedies, blighted, truth-reflecting mad people have been catnip to playwrights, but they're usually a pain in the ear.
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The scope of this story is dizzying, particularly for me, since my sense of world geography was blighted from early on by a lackluster geography education in high school.
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The profit excluded costs from litigation and fines for misconduct, which have blighted Barclays in recent years as it paid out for misdeeds during and after the financial crisis.
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Most of his work involves disaffected and dysfunctional Americans perpetrating gory acts of violence upon one another in environments that embrace both blighted urban apartments and affluent suburban homes.
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Related: A Morphing Mural Is Changing Colors in Norfolk An Interactive Installation Lets You Manipulate Time and Space Light Art Festival Bathes Blighted Baltimore in A Sea of Color
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And in a world that feels heavy and blighted right now, it's sentiments like these from the icons we look up to which provide a little bit of light.
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They call for an early presidential election, which Maduro would likely lose as his popularity has sunk along with an economy blighted by triple-digit inflation and food shortages.
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The case was a rare example of a prominent Nigerian politician being punished for his part in the endemic corruption that has blighted Africa's most populous country for decades.
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The Australian Open, the season's first Grand Slam, starts later on Monday but the lead-up was blighted by smoke from bushfires that have raged across Australia for months.
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Ever since the tragic rise to influence of Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and their kindred cabal, modern architects have blighted cities around the world with ugliness.
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Poor economic data and political conflict has blighted South Africa's prospects, with the sovereign losing its investment-grade status in April after downgrades from both S&P and Fitch.
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They called for an early presidential election, which Maduro would likely lose as his popularity has sunk along with an economy blighted by triple-digit inflation and food shortages.
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Northeast Nigeria has been blighted by a decade-long insurgency led by militant group Boko Haram that has killed 30,000 people and forced two million to flee their homes.
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It's what's behind the lure of Wakanda, a land of black vibrancy, freedom, diversity, and discourse not blighted by outside forces or forced to negotiate with anyone but themselves.
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In mature markets like the U.S. and in Europe, internet cost is a major barrier in urban areas while rural areas are blighted by a lack of available technology.
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In an interview with the Financial Times a week before the protests kicked off, the President compared Chile to other countries in Latin America blighted by economic and political turmoil.
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' Congress on Thursday approved a law to prevent drug trafficking money being used to finance political campaigns in the poor Central American nation blighted by gang violence.
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The city came back and acknowledged it didn't need her house for the road, but it said that the property was in the area the city planned to declare blighted.
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Since her back-to-back titles at Melbourne Park in 2012-13, two injury-blighted years have kept Azarenka from claiming a third but the powerful Belarusian is looking dangerous.
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Everything from our mental health to our careers to our chances on the property ladder are supposedly blighted, and yet we're prepared to believe in the power of our pants.
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Ilva, Europe's largest steel plant, has been blighted by labor unrest as well as environmental problems and was sold last year to ArcelorMittal days before it ran out of cash.
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But the bankruptcies have hurt Atlantic City, a city that is now blighted with empty hulking buildings, unemployment substantially higher than the national average, and a high violent crime rate.
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Nalayeh was a prominent Somali-Canadian journalist who was passionate about depicting Somalia -- a country long blighted by war, famine and terrorist attacks, beyond the usual bombs and bullets narrative.
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China, a major oil importer and blighted by air pollution, has offered generous incentives to the public to buy green cars and forced global automakers to share their EV technology.
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I am no fan of our mayor, but I am not sure that local politicians have much control over larger issues of economic and racial injustice that create blighted neighborhoods.
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You can seek out blighted areas near hospitals or universities, betting that an expanding institution will eventually gobble up the neighborhood and pay you handsomely for your roofless, collapsing investment.
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Last summer's hot and dry weather blighted the European hop harvest while strong demand for increasingly popular craft beers, which need more hops, brought tight supplies and rising hop prices.
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Related: An Autonomous New Gadget Makes Light and Sound Art Light Art Festival Bathes Blighted Baltimore in A Sea of Color A Network of LED Antennas Brings a Neighborhood Together
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That respect for the ineffable has been translated into the most imaginative and inspired use to date of a popular composer's songbook in this blighted era of the jukebox musical.
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When it was conceived, the center was presented as a visionary plan to clear out what some urban planners considered blighted Manhattan neighborhoods to make room for a cultural oasis.
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If I face away from the shower (which is blighted with my husband's dandruff shampoo and sickly green bar of soap), our moldering Brooklyn bathroom resembles a 19th-century apothecary.
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He trusted the families he met there, and later in Appalachia, blighted city neighborhoods in the Northeast and the fields of California, to know what would help them the most.
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It sprawls across 139 square miles (two and a half times the size of Miami), a preponderance of which remain blighted and empty, with few near-term prospects for prosperity.
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All Western Balkan countries, blighted by wars in the 1990s, aspire to join the European Union, but their accession has been slowed down by Brexit and lack of domestic reforms.
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Trump falling far behind in nominating State officials Russia ties Trump's presidency has also been blighted by questions surrounding the ties a number of advisers, past and present, have to Russia.
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Cities such as Warsaw, Katowice and Krakow have been blighted by smog this winter, often making the top 10 list of most polluted in the world, overtaking Beijing or New Delhi.
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Highlighting the efficiency of the government poppy tax, officials in Marja decided this year to halve it from the year before — precisely the proportion of the harvest that the fungus blighted.
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Chances are that Rosicky would have been one of the many players to depart the club, had he not succumbed to the same fate which has blighted so many Arsenal careers.
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The Somali-Canadian journalist was a social media star, using her large following to tell positive stories about her home country of Somalia, a place long blighted by famine and war.
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CRI score: 10.67 A country blighted by armed conflict, in 323 Afghanistan also suffered as a result of landslides caused by heavy rainfall in Badakhshan, in the north of the country.
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A young graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Yale Law School, eager to offer legal help to a troubled neighbourhood, he moved into a crime-blighted housing complex in Newark, New Jersey.
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Mihyar, the hero of the collection, is a figure of mythic proportions, an exile who roams through a blighted landscape and trumpets a new creed—indeed, a creed of the New.
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Jose Castillo, an urban planner and architect in Mexico City, says that Ciudad Neza, home to 1.2 million people, should serve as a model for other blighted urban areas and slums.
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From the end of World War II until 2011 this was one of Berlin's most blighted areas — in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, sprawling beneath three sets of elevated tracks.
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The Games' chief ambassador, Pearson won a new legion of fans last year when she claimed a second 100m hurdles world title in London, putting four injury-blighted years behind her.
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Drama never seems far away far away from Kyrgios and his leadup to Melbourne has been blighted by a knee problem which saw him limp through the Hopman Cup in Perth.
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The mostly Euro-American Dukes sell lumber on an ever vaster scale, while the métis Sels struggle between subsistence in a blighted indigenous culture and badly compensated piecework in lumber extraction.
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Now the force is struggling to salvage a reputation blighted by its behavior in the June 12 protests over a proposed extradition law that convulsed Hong Kong, the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
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He has won international prizes for his work, which has included images of people dying of H.I.V. in the Chinese countryside, life in polluted mining towns, and waterways blighted with waste.
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As Michael Kimmelman explained in The Times on Monday, Mr. Cuomo has a plan for Penn, but it falls short of the radical intervention that the blighted hub so badly needs.
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For decades, Newark has been a symbol of America's decaying cities, with every box on the list of urban ills checked off: violence, entrenched poverty, vanishing jobs, struggling schools, blighted blocks.
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His refusal set off a new political crisis in the country, which has been long blighted by popular uprisings and clashes between government forces and local militias opposed to his rule.
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The lawsuit further points out that the city seeks to apply a state law intended to facilitate improving "slums or blighted areas," which would make tax incentives available to the developers.
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That measure also sets up a "community reinvestment fund" that would put money into job training programs and community centers in the areas left most blighted by the war on drugs.
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Siemens reported a 22019% fall in net profit in its fiscal first quarter, weighed down by weakness in the auto and energy sectors, as it begins a shareholder meeting blighted by protests.
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With views of the Manhattan skyline and sleek cars that glide over 18 miles, it has become increasingly popular and has spurred development in once-blighted areas of the New Jersey waterfront.
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Woods has spent a record total of 683 weeks at the top of the rankings but, blighted by his injuries and poor form in recent years, is now down at number 726.
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NHAN TRACH, Vietnam — Since a devastating fish kill blighted the waters along 120 miles of coastline in central Vietnam, hundreds of people are believed to have fallen ill from eating poisoned fish.
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The charity's business start-up program launched in 1983 following the Prince's conversations with young people in the aftermath of the riots that blighted some of Britain's inner cities at the time.
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Campbell's younger sister Bronte is defending her 50 and 100m freestyle titles at the world championships in Hungary but has played down her chances after preparations blighted by pain in both shoulders.
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In 2512, a section of East New York was the first area to be rezoned under Mayor Bill de Blasio's strategy to promote affordable housing and spark economic development in blighted neighborhoods.
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It tells the story of a community plot in a blighted urban neighborhood, and of all that takes root there: not just vegetables, but hope, trust, camaraderie and a commitment to change.
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While the 12-times Grand Slam champion is still not quite back to his best after a difficult year blighted by an elbow injury, he must now be considered a genuine threat.
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One time and no more—that way, she could control the flow of hair-blighted men and she could tell herself that by seeing these men only once she wasn't betraying Jerome.
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His figurative style developed as he tried to reconnect with the natural world while living in a loft in SoHo, at the time a blighted commercial and industrial neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.
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The difference is that Mr. Pritchett's world is enlivened by his cheerful embrace of eccentricity, while Mr. Trevor's London is drabber, sadder, a place of widows and widowers, blighted romances, unraveling relationships.
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Chicago and other cities establish tax-increment financing districts in economically blighted areas; then as tax revenues grow due to investment, they distribute the increased revenues to infrastructure, redevelopment, schools and other purposes.
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Manufacturing output in April grew by a consensus-beating 4.6% year-on-year, according to Statistics South Africa, as industries blighted by the nationwide power outages of the first quarter bounced back sharply.
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We wander through a blighted dreadscape with the singer, a man bitterly betrayed by love's "pack of lies" — in this case, Collins is writing about first wife, Andrea, who left him in 1979.
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If, for instance, a weak bladder leads a child to perform poorly in timed exams or protuberant ears means bullying blighted their education, genetic variants for these traits will show up as disadvantageous.
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Vijay Pande, who runs a biological-engineering fund at Andreesen Horowitz, a venture-capital firm, sees in some plant-based foods echoes of the rush into biofuels that blighted synthetic biology's early days.
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But his first weeks in office have been blighted by in-fighting, scraps with Congress and a sluggish economy that are hurting his poll numbers and prompting concerns he may fail to deliver.
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From blighted, post-industrial towns in Pennsylvania to leafy commuter villages full of Wall Street bankers, Mr Trump broke through his supposed "ceiling" of 40-odd per cent of the Republican primary vote.
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Luhrmann, already so well-known for his sumptuous (if messy) style as a director, manages to turn a blighted New York City into a kind of glorious ruin, steeped in danger and wonder.
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The Czech 10th seed hopes to recapture the triumphs of 2011 and 2014 after losing in the third round last year and with the start of her 2016 season blighted by gastrointestinal illness.
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Exit polls showed Mexicans voted overwhelmingly for anti-establishment outsider Lopez Obrador in Sunday's presidential election, betting a leftward turn in government could end the corruption and violence that has blighted the country.
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He is a home buyer who got a deal in a blighted area of the city and woke up one morning not long after to discover that gentrification had quadrupled its market value.
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Katrin Jakobsdottir, 41, chairwoman of the Left-Green Movement, will lead the government of the North Atlantic island of 340,000 residents after elections in October that were blighted by scandal and voter mistrust.
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Analysts of Indonesian politics said they feared the election would be blighted by social media campaigns of the kind seen in 2014, which falsely asserted that Mr. Joko was an ethnic Chinese Christian.
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The drummers snapped and pounded, the flutists piped and the men marched their new banner past the brick rowhouses and storefronts of East Belfast, a working-class stronghold blighted in parts by poverty.
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The lawsuit was the latest in a series of cases and probes stemming from a scandal over lead contamination in the drinking water in Flint, an economically blighted city of about 100,000 residents.
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The leader who oversaw the transition of his country's power to Nelson Mandela said Tuesday that the future looks bright for a continent previously blighted by war, famine and a lack of infrastructure.
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Gentrification emerged as a leading issue in the campaign, as a decade-long influx of affluent people, many of them white, has transformed Harlem's once-blighted blocks of 19th century brownstone town houses.
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And by owning the whole complex, Miller and his co-owner David Fishbein can control the mix over time, and avoid the runaway rents that turn trendy streets into blighted, brand-saturated stretches.
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Manufacturing output in April grew by a consenus-beating 4.6% year-on-year according to Statistics South Africa, as industries blighted by the nationwide power outages of the first quarter bounced back sharply.
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Any interaction is almost immediately commodified as a painstakingly-manicured photo op, shot in a manner that minimizes the incongruity between Zuckerberg's indoor kid complexion and the backdrop of some blighted Rust Belt town.
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The attack adds to a list of recent deadly clashes in Central African Republic where state control is breaking down and inter-faith violence that has long blighted the country threatens to flare again.
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Though the Western Addition had an international reputation as a vibrant center for jazz and culture, redevelopment forces waged a successful campaign to label it blighted, and eminent domain sent thousands of residents packing.
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For people who have been blighted, the World Meeting of Families, a triennial Catholic festival which brought Francis to Dublin, sounds like a joke, even though some participants are on the faith's liberal edge.
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The incident is also certain to further sour relations between Kiev and Moscow, which remain blighted by Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its backing for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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If the project is seen through and realized on the ground, it would offer a good news story for the country, which has been blighted by conflict and unrest for the last 13 years.
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While the party appears to be running Turin with little difficulty, it has come badly unstuck in Rome, where the mayor's first three months in office have been blighted by in-fighting and resignations.
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In response, Rick Scott, who is serving out his last term as governor, announced that he'd be touring the blighted St. Lucie River region and earmarking an extra $0003,2000 to the clean-up efforts.
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This spring's blighted crop of dystopian novels is pessimistic about technology, about the economy, about politics, and about the planet, making it a more abundant harvest of unhappiness than most other heydays of downheartedness.
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Once an abandoned, blighted area until local entrepreneurs started revitalizing it in 2008, the Distillery District has since become a mecca of craft distilleries, breweries, bars, pizza joints, ice cream shops, and live music.
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Flamanville 3 has been blighted by weak spots in the steel of the reactor vessel, issues with the weldings in the cooling circuit pipes and problems with concrete during the early stages of construction.
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This year it didn't take much looking to see waves being made by several books and catalogs that delved deeper into familiar areas or pioneered new ones, adding some euphoria to our blighted moment.
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The neighborhood was riddled with rubble-strewn lots and blighted by cocaine and heroin; abandoned buildings were taken over by dealers or demolished by the city in an effort to squash the drug trade.
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Stallings and Mullinax combined for an 11-under-par 61 at the team event at TPC Louisiana, on a day blighted by a seven-hour, 33-minute stoppage due to heavy rain and lightning.
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Under the government order, all traditional kilns must shut from October 20 until December 31 to cut smog that has blighted parts of Punjab province, and other areas of the country, in recent years.
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Every indicator was flashing red, every objective and measurable aspect of this particular game in this particular moment insisted that it was indeed the blasted waste that its blighted box score says it is.
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Libya has been blighted by a power vacuum over the past two years, in which loose alliances of armed groups aligned with rival parliaments and governments in Tripoli and the east have fought for supremacy.
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Mexicans voted overwhelmingly for anti-establishment outsider Lopez Obrador in Sunday's presidential contest, veering Latin America's second-largest economy leftward in a bid to stamp out the corruption and violence that has blighted the country.
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This year, Mrs Clinton's hopes of getting through to young voters were additionally blighted by Senator Bernie Sanders, her main opponent in the primaries, who promised the radical changes that younger voters tend to want.
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But opposition is brewing among residents in the once-blighted neighborhood, who say the city's plan is an unwelcome step backward for the South Bronx as it works to shed its synonymity with urban decay.
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Xinhua said the Chinese film industry has been "blighted" by cinemas and distributors cheating to inflate box office figures through accounting ploys or other tricks, such as claiming ticket sales that exceed an auditorium's capacity.
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Torres, of the center-left UNE party, has led the race to succeed President Jimmy Morales, a conservative former television host whose term has been blighted by accusations of corruption made by U.N.-backed investigators.
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At times, the President has questioned the nation he leads, asking why no other advanced country seems so blighted with regular killing sprees and wondering aloud why Americans will not choose to stop the bloodshed.
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Blighted by restrictive French union deals and strikes that last year wiped 335 million euros off earnings and forced out its previous CEO, Air France-KLM has trailed rivals Lufthansa and British Airways on profitability.
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"The urban areas took a big hit, and they have stayed down," said Alan Mallach, senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress, a nonprofit that advises communities on dealing with vacant and blighted homes.
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By the time he left three terms later, vast stretches of New York had been redeveloped, with new parks, office towers, stadiums, employers and taxpaying residents where there were once blighted properties and industrial land.
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Designed in the mid-1990s by Mario Botta, the museum's masonry exterior always conveyed something of the air of a mausoleum, closing the building off from what was still a blighted part of the city.
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He vowed, too, that one day he would play in the N.F.L. and have the means to move his mother and half sister out of the blighted neighborhood they lived in as they struggled financially.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long blighted by injury, Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis hoped to finally be on track to fulfill the promise of a stop-start career when he made the second round of the U.S. Open.
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On affordable housing, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is on a tear, building and preserving affordable units on a pace not seen since Ed Koch oversaw the rebuilding of a city awash in blighted property.
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The landscape of war in Qaraqosh, at the edge of Mosul, is as familiar as it is blighted — collapsed buildings, burned storefronts, church crosses on their sides, the charred chassis left by a car bomb.
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He and Mr. Dolce bought a blighted three-story building across the street from the theater and plan to transform it into the kind of "boutique place you would see in Camden, Maine," he said.
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The third hole sits not far from Columbia Parc, a housing development in the Seventh Ward that was built through a public-private partnership after the blighted St. Bernard public housing complex had been demolished.
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" I feared that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was leaving open the possibility that we might one day "have a Reserve blighted by a spider web of roads connecting drilling sites across the region.
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The schemes, which certify cocoa ingredients as ethically sourced, are key to their branding, but have had little success in tackling the widespread deforestation and child labour in West Africa that has blighted chocolate's image.
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BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Britain's women's 4x400m relay team won bronze on Sunday after successfully appealing against their disqualification as a row over rules that has blighted the world indoor championships reignited right at the end.
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Despite a season blighted by injury, the 2017 world champions skated a lyrical, moving program for a season's best 155.60 (234.84 combined), drawing a packed crowd to its feet with their clean jumps and gorgeous lifts.
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That probe, known as "cascadas," or waterfall in English, for the SQM holding companies involved, including Norte Grande, Potasios de Chile and Pampa Calichera, blighted the country's record as one of Latin America's least corrupt economies.
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Lebanon, saddled with one of the world's heaviest public debt burdens and blighted by years of low economic growth, is seeking to put its public finances on a sustainable path by implementing long-delayed economic reforms.
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Preparations for the event were blighted by a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of several top officials in 2014, laying bare the spread of mafia groups from their southern fiefdoms to the wealthier north.
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But his patience was pushed to the limit a couple of years ago, when his EgyptAir flight from Cairo to London was blighted by the near-constant stench of cigarette smoke wafting in from the cockpit.
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Freed from Gibbons's riotous acanthus, he let other influences crowd boldly in: the peonies, roses and lilies of Dutch Old Masters, the vegetable heads of Arcimboldo and a touch of modern cynicism in insect-blighted leaves.
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"Things had gotten to the point where the town was so significantly blighted that no one wanted to live here, and then no one wanted to work here," said Christopolus, describing Ogden in the late '90s.
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That's changed in recent years, as the blanket phrase of "public use" has been used in eminent domain cases to include razing blighted urban areas or if the land could be seen as encouraging economic development.
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Blighted by endemic corruption and cartel violence that have killed well over 100,000 people in the past decade, Mexico is still grappling with the fallout of conflict of interest scandals enveloping President Enrique Pena Nieto's government.
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The marketing department of Eindhoven, a Dutch city that was blighted by unemployment in the late 1990s but has subsequently become a technology and design hub, open-sourced a new visual identity and typeface in 2013.
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If outer space activities remain insufficiently regulated, it could one day lead to conflicts between countries or companies and to environmental problems, like a junk-filled upper atmosphere, a blighted moon or Mars, or pulverized asteroids.
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Millions more children are denied access to education simply because their parents are poor, because they are girls, or because they are growing up in countries blighted by conflict such as in Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
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Mr. Dodon, who wants to scrap a so-called association agreement with Europe and join a Russian-sponsored economic bloc instead, said the election "marked a new beginning" for a country blighted by poverty and graft.
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Later in 2015, the city council in the mountain resort town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado "blighted" its vibrant, tourist-destination downtown as a first step to form a downtown URA and use TIF for redevelopment projects.
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Every so often we'd come across evidence of what had once grown in those fields: an island of blighted corn stalks, a soybean shoot—as perfect as a laboratory specimen—floating in a shin-deep lake.
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So when a ballot measure asking for over a quarter billion dollars in public funding to aid in the construction of a new stadium in the city's blighted East Village neighborhood came up, it coasted through.
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Last month, Belt Magazine reported local authorities took steps to designate about 3,000 acres of agricultural land, farmhouses, and single-family homes as "blighted"—a move that could allow the government to seize homes with eminent domain.
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Some believe he played a unique role in the modern history of Parliament, and — for good or ill, depending on their viewpoint — in the blighted course of the campaign to pull Britain out of the European Union.
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Meanwhile, drought that blighted planting, followed by pest attacks during the growing season, have put European Union rapeseed, as canola is known on that side of the Atlantic, on track for the smallest harvest in 13 years.
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The bank's profit jumped 93 percent in the six months to the end of June, partly because it avoided the hefty losses from its private equity business and bad loans that blighted its results a year ago.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Moldova's new government has a window of opportunity to build a functioning state free of the oligarchic systems that have blighted it in the years since independence, in 1991, Prime Minister Maia Sandu told Reuters.
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He eventually found an unlikely ally: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who joined the effort because of the economic promise of hemp cultivation in some of the more blighted communities across his own home state.
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Oil spills, sometimes due to vandalism, sometimes to corrosion, are common in the Niger Delta, a vast maze of creeks and mangrove swamps criss-crossed by pipelines and blighted by poverty, pollution, oil-fuelled corruption and violence.
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Macedonia and Serbia, which are on that route, are not in the EU. Greece, its economy blighted by the euro zone debt crisis, has asked for 480 million euros to help it cope with some 100,000 migrants.
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In a second season blighted by injury and poor form, one Italian paper famously renamed their 'L'Asino Della Settimana' (or 'Donkey of the Week') Award to 'Bergkamp Della Settimana', which most would agree was a spiteful touch.
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Restaurants and businesses have popped up all over the city, bringing much-needed tax revenue to blighted areas, while simultaneously displacing African-American families and longtime residents unable to match the changing socioeconomic profile of the city.
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Similarly, watching "Endgame" in this incarnation, I found a creepy new pertinence in its depiction of a blighted, blasted world beyond the single, decrepit room in which Hamm, Clov, Nagg and Nell live (barely) in virtual captivity.
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Bloomberg lobbied to have the neighborhood declared "blighted," which allowed the state to seize it through eminent domain and hand it over to Ratner — under the guise that this private real-estate project would improve the community.
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You need to head into an Apple Store, or an Apple Authorized Service Provider, to get the keyboard upgraded to the latest fourth-generation model, which we're assuming isn't blighted by sticky space bars or repeating letters.
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In a statement, the company called its jobs "safe and innovative," noting that the warehouses were built on "blighted property" that was vacant for years before Amazon "injected life (and jobs)" back into the East Baltimore brownfields.
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Salad is appealing not only because the food is healthy for us but because it's healthy for the world — a direct retort to the obviously very bad Styrofoam Filet-o-Fish containers that blighted many customers' youth.
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In the months since recently ousted Governor Scott Walker's deal with Foxconn was signed, property near the factory site was declared "blighted," which legally allowed the state to seize it via the otherwise illegal practice of eminent domain.
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The sudden disappearance of a woman named Lila in the present day leads Elena, her closest friend (who goes by Lenù), to search for clues in their shared childhood and adolescence in a blighted, post-war Naples neighbourhood.
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But Italians widely regard the centers as being blighted by obsolete technology and insufficient and under-qualified staff, creating fears they will be unable to verify that recipients are genuinely looking for work and could encourage benefit cheats.
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Her enthralling rivalry with the British great raised the profile of track cycling, offering a rare narrative of clean competition, even as a seemingly endless string of doping scandals on the men's pro tour blighted the sport overall.
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Tensions between the Sunni-led kingdom and the Shi'ite Islamic Republic had blighted several previous OPEC meetings, including in December 2015 when the group fell short of agreeing a formal output target for the first time in years.
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Scandals have blighted his first 18 months in office and soaring inflation, which peaked at 29% in December, is hurting the poor in a country where more than half the population lives on less than $2 a day.
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The move comes as El Salvador's leftist President Salvador Sanchez Ceren faces severe financial problems in his efforts to tackle the gangs, known as maras, who have blighted El Salvador with one of the world's highest murder rates.
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On the contrary, people whose lives have been blighted by injury or violence (whether politically inspired or not) should be alive to the gravity of what has happened, but nonetheless find ways to rise above feelings of vindictiveness.
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Investors are also able to pool their resources in an "opportunity fund" to finance larger projects, such as investing in funds that will provide capital for supporting new and existing businesses, infrastructure projects and blighted properties, for example.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Muhammadu Buhari, who has won four more years as Nigeria's president, proved wrong those who doubted he could survive the blows of recession, militant attacks on oilfields and an Islamist insurgency that blighted his first term.
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Yet she sets off on a hilarious quest to hold the Catholic church to account for the lives it has blighted, committing acts of arson in an inspired—and deranged—effort to redeem both the land and herself.
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Consumer prices streaked more than 54 percent higher in the 20073 months through March in defiance of central bank efforts to control inflation, fueling poverty and further damaging a business climate blighted by nose-bleed high borrowing rates.
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The first president from the majority indigenous population of Bolivia, Morales oversaw economic growth in one of the region's poorest nations during almost 14 years in office, a rare achievement in a neighborhood blighted by boom and bust.
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The ECB is expected to keep policy unchanged, but it meets at a time when markets are blighted by doubts about economic growth, a spat between Rome and Brussels over Italy's budget and big declines on Wall Street.
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It's a tall order, because nothing is more synonymous with Games Workshop than Warhammer 21K, and Games Workshop's blighted reputation is a legacy that was decades in the making, the company's inheritance from now-departed CEO Tom Kirby.
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Last month Brazilian officials opened up the area for mining, claiming the move would bring economic benefits to local communities and allow for greater government oversight of an industry blighted by illegal operations, many operating in the reserve.
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School district policies confine most kids to the schools closest to them, often to the detriment of black and brown children born into communities blighted by racist housing policies that for decades choked off resources and financial opportunities.
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They struggle for survival, of course, but in what is perhaps the most distinctive, and moving, feature of Mandel's novel, they also privilege art, performing Shakespeare and classical music in a landscape blighted by the collapse of modernity.
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"You could certainly help families who have been blighted by a horrible genetic disease," said Robin Lovell-Badge, a professor of genetics and embryology at the Francis Crick Institute in London, who was not involved in the study.
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Ms. Reed said that, like the bank, she and her husband had been working to improve the Columbia community; in August they decided, through their company, to buy two blighted buildings on Gervais Street that were in foreclosure.
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Usually translated as "market grounds," jangmadang is the word for the unofficial markets that emerged during the Arduous March, which is the regime's official name for the famine that blighted the country throughout the middle and late 1990s.
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Mr. Desmond takes the reader inside a landlord networking meeting, where Sherrena (most names in the book are pseudonyms), an African-American fourth-grade teacher turned full-time landlord, extols the moneymaking opportunities in the city's most blighted neighborhoods.
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Questions raised over the future of the Games after the 2010 event in Delhi is blighted by construction delays, budget over-runs, poor living conditions at the athletes' village, a number of high-profile withdrawals and low spectator numbers.
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And though you may assume, dear innocent theatergoer, that things can only lighten up for this poor blighted creature, she will continue to march in lock step with an unforgiving destiny for the succeeding two and a half hours.
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His conviction in 2012, after he admitted 10 counts of fraud and money-laundering, was a rare example of a big player in Nigerian politics being held to account for the corruption that has blighted Africa's most populous nation.
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As Abby saw it, testosterone had blighted her with an Adam's apple that, no matter how long she grew her curly hair, or how soft her skin became from hormone-replacement therapy, irremediably read to a stranger as male.
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But when the victims of these moves can find only lower-wage jobs at Target or Walmart, and residents of these blighted cities have much less money to spend, is that a fair distribution of the savings and costs?
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He championed an open door to immigrants, he campaigned for votes in blighted inner cities as well as Sun Belt suburbs, and he believed that conservative principles could ultimately build a pan-ethnic political coalition, purged of racialized appeals.
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The East African nation, home to the famous Serengeti which is packed with wildlife and Africa's highest mountain Kilimanjaro, relies on revenues from tourism and safaris but has been blighted by poachers chasing ivory to sell mostly in Asia.
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If Moses's wider vision had been fulfilled, the lengthened artery would have served a whole new neighborhood of superblock apartment buildings he had designated to replace the "blighted slums" along the blocks south of the park to Houston Street.
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Beneath the wild catharsis of the comedy, the play's sneaky surprise is how it prods us to consider the common good, our duty to the people we love and the blighted choices we're capable of making when we're afraid.
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Much of that criticism has come from rival Italian officials at the national level, no doubt concerned about Italy's blighted image — and their own — as the number of cases in the country has spiked to 383, with 17 deaths.
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That theme was signaled in the episode's oddest, and I'd say least successful, idea: a grainy montage set to martial music that began with images of collectivist agricultural might before seguing to blighted fields and long lines outside stores.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - About 20 asylum seekers on Friday left an Australian-run detention center due to close down in Papua New Guinea, but hundreds of holdouts faced forcible eviction amid an immigration standoff that has blighted Australia for years.
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Which leaves tiny Belgium with a special quandary: Arms sales are one of the major sources of jobs and income in one of its most blighted regions, Wallonia, where manufacturing has suffered from globalization, only to be replaced by narcotics trafficking.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The prehistoric stone circle of Stonehenge in southwest England will be freed from the sight, sound and smell of traffic under plans announced on Tuesday to bury a busy road that has long blighted the World Heritage Site.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Opposition lawmakers in Colombia have proposed a bill that aims to cut the use of mercury and other toxic chemicals in illegal gold mining, that has polluted rivers and blighted the ancestral lands of indigenous tribes.
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Lumpish pace and thin plotting has blighted other Marvel Netflix shows, and while this one isn't exactly breakneck (it still has the steady, unhurried canter of a cable drama), it only takes three episodes for our heroes to... erm... assemble.
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Sayina Riman, president of the Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN), expects output for the new season which starts in October to hit between 23,2922 tonnes and 0003,2000 tonnes, up sharply from the season just ended which was blighted by poor weather.
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Integrity Idol asked the public to vote for the most honest civil servant as part of a drive to promote greater integrity in the West African country, blighted by accusations of corruption as it rebuilds after years of civil war.
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Even so, with tens of thousands of blighted buildings, and an unemployment figure hovering around 18 percent, no one seemed to be crying out for $19.95 linen-bound journals made from acid-free paper sourced from sustainably managed North American forests.
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As Sancho, Mr. Joseph cuts a pensive and gently sardonic figure, affecting a slight lisp and turning a mordant eye on life in 18th-century England, carefully guiding us from Sancho's blighted childhood to his later ascendance to the middle class.
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In a separate advance for Smith, who joined Air France-KLM from Air Canada in September, the group also signed a pay deal with its French pilots on Tuesday, drawing a line under a labour dispute that blighted operations last year.
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One of his designs for William Zeckendorf, the flamboyant New York property developer who employed him in the 1950s, was the Kips Bay Plaza housing project, two square grids in pre-cast concrete which were meant to revitalise a blighted neighbourhood.
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" In an interview with Metro, McKendrick said that this discovery allowed us all "to picture a brighter, more optimistic future in which the earth is blighted, torn apart and consumed piece by piece at the hands of furious immortal Egyptian gods.
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ACCRA (Reuters) - Opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana's national election, becoming president elect at the third attempt and cementing the country's reputation as a standard bearer of democracy in a region that has been blighted by civil wars and coups.
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It also shines a spotlight on the aggressive tactics of pyramid scheme gangs which have long blighted Chinese cities, while much online criticism has been directed at the recruitment site Boss Zhipin for not ensuring the veracity of its ads.
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The SPD has slid further into disarray since its leaders struck the coalition deal, blighted by bitter divisions over whether to team up again with Merkel, a loss of confidence in outgoing leader Martin Schulz and discontent over the succession process.
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In an era blighted by doping scandals, the Jamaican has almost single-handedly kept the sport afloat but his commanding reign will come to an end when he retires after next month's world championships, finally allowing other sprinters a look-in.
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He is the most senior Nigerian politician to have been held to account for the corruption that has blighted Africa's most populous nation for decades, and his jailing was hailed as a high point in the international fight against graft.
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The 28-year-old rapper's hue and cry was received as an authentic representation of what many black people from blighted areas, as well as those who have the means to live elsewhere, still feel: America is not for them.
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The SPD has slid into disarray since its leaders struck the coalition deal last week, blighted by bitter divisions over whether to join the coalition, a loss of confidence in outgoing leader Martin Schulz and discontent over the succession process.
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Newspapers called the region "the Greece of Italy," a way of describing its blighted economy; in the first decade of the twenty-first century, unemployment among the young, at more than fifty per cent, was among the highest in Europe.
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So with governing it can be said that if you want to help a city rife with housing needs - building government housing in one location of Detroit may not be as attractive perhaps as homesteading a blighted area in another.
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Ramaphosa was sworn in as head of state on Thursday after his scandal-plagued predecessor, Jacob Zuma, reluctantly resigned on orders of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) after nine years in office blighted by corruption, economic mismanagement and disputed appointments.
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The East African nation enjoyed its most successful Olympics in Rio, winning six gold medals, six silvers and one bronze, all in track and field, but the performance was blighted by claims of corruption among senior government officials and team bosses.
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However, a long-term, well-executed plan to teach employable skills and link qualified youth to jobs will transform blighted inner-city and rural areas — laden with drugs, crime and desperation — into vibrant communities sharing the American dream of opportunity.
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"There's a general reduction in quality of life around these properties," says Kim Graziani of the Center for Community Progress, a nonprofit organization that studies run-down houses across the country and works to turn blighted properties into neighborhood assets.
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Gerald went on to share stories from a journey that began when he was a boy in a blighted Dallas neighborhood and spanned up to his role as the cynosure of a room comprising no small number of the 1 percent.
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SINGAPORE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A third straight year of drought in Australia, blighted by forecasts of below-average rains during the crucial spring growing season, means the country's wheat crop could shrivel by 2503% from previous forecasts, traders and industry officials say.
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Mr. Conway played Ensign Charles Parker, an enthusiastic officer with a young career already blighted by mishap who is assigned by McHale's superior officer and frustrated nemesis, Captain Binghamton (Joe Flynn), to infiltrate McHale's crew and report back on their transgressions.
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Instead of plaudits ahead of the phone's launch on April 26 in the United States, the South Korean conglomerate has been blighted by technology journalists reporting breaks, bulges and blinking screens after using their samples for as little as a day.
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In her New Year speech, Merkel said she recognized that many Germans "bemoaned" the ruling coalition that took office in March, an alliance of her conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), which has been blighted by infighting.
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In the latest setback to her current tour -- which has been blighted by delays and cancellations -- tickets holders who arrived at Sunday's show in Lisbon, Portugal were greeted with a message informing them that it would not be going ahead.
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While early in his tenure Shulkin gained bipartisan acclaim for cleaning up a blighted agency, he began to butt heads more and more with political appointees over moving care outside the department, which currently serves more than 9 million veterans.
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Wealthy homeowners in gentrified urban areas owe it to their poorer neighbors to help turn around blighted parts of America's cities, Ben Carson said in his first televised interview since becoming the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Football clubs, former players, and anti-racist groups have been left stunned by the latest campaign by Serie A, Italy's top professional football league, amid a season blighted by the ugly practice of fans directing monkey chants at black players.
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So it was his coach Calvin Ford — he sleeps much less, sometimes just an hour a night — who found the attempted-delivery note when he got to Upton Boxing Center, a gym in one of the city's most blighted neighborhoods.
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This could be most difficult in the euro zone, where the mix of slow growth, low inflation and a fractured banking system blighted by bad loans will make it difficult for the European Central Bank to escape low or negative rates.
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In the 1950s and 60s, for example, notorious public transit-foe Robert Moses pushed a plan that would have connected the Holland Tunnel and the Manhattan Bridge with a 10-lane expressway — demolishing much of SoHo and Little Italy, then considered "blighted" neighborhoods.
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It said the firms damaged had created 40,20153 jobs in a country of 99 million people that has long been blighted by famine but which has been rapidly transforming its fortunes, delivering growth rates that hit 10 percent in fiscal 2015/16.
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He addressed some of the controversial proposals that have blighted his favorability among a majority of Americans, and said "of course" he didn't believe Ted Cruz's father was linked to the JFK assassination despite circulating a tabloid report just one day earlier.
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The company, which warned in early January that order intake for 2019 had more than halved from 2018 levels as delayed contracts blighted the end of the year, told Reuters it had already booked orders of around $100 million so far in 2020.
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Since many delegates have no special love for Trump, the coup leaders hope they'd be able to make a convincing case to go with another candidate, although it's hard to see who would take up the blighted nomination, which would be inherently controversial.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's capital city plans to make its state-run bus and metro network free for women commuters, hoping that higher use of public transport will improve women's safety in one of the world's largest metropolitan areas blighted by gender crime.
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His withdrawal may have just been a precaution with Wimbledon so close, but it was another blow to the 22-year-old, whose hip and shoulder problems forced him to pull out of the Italian Open and blighted his French Open preparations.
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The deal announced on Wednesday is the second major fundraising by an Indian telco this year after Bharti Airtel Ltd announced a similar plan to raise $4.6 billion for reducing debt and funding operations in a market blighted by steep price competition.
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If he succeeds, Argentina could become a bright spot in an emerging markets landscape blighted by Latin American corruption scandals, slower commodities demand from China and fear that higher U.S. interest rates could push investment out of developing countries and toward the dollar.
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Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, who was also a teenage prodigy but has had her career blighted by injury, also advanced by overcoming an awful start and seeing off a match point to beat Hungarian Timea Babos 1-6 6-1 7-6(4).
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The militants say they want a greater share of Nigeria's oil wealth, which accounts for around 70 percent of national income, to be passed on to communities in the impoverished region and for areas blighted by oil spills to be cleaned up.
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Since the end of 2013, he has competed in only 18 PGA Tour events while being blighted by injuries and poor form, recording one top-10 during that period along with six missed cuts and three withdrawals as his ranking plummeted to 767th.
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The blighted environment of "The Caretaker" seems downright luxurious by comparison with the Oklahoma motel room on view in "Bug," the Tracy Letts play about a couple who come to share their seedy environs with the very critters promised in the title.
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Colorado's urban renewal law was intended to address, among other things, "slum and blighted areas" in municipalities that "contributes substantially to the spread of disease and crime," and that constitute a "serious and growing menace" to the public health, safety, morals and welfare.
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The new site, on farmland just outside the city limits, was annexed into the town, then rezoned from agricultural to commercial, and then declared blighted and substandard, all maneuvers that allowed the town to offer Costco more than $13 million in tax incentives.
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Born in the time of the Iraq war, they saw their country occupied by the US-led coalition, before coming of age in an era blighted by the brutality of ISIS, with Mosul under the control of the jihadist group for three years.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf was handed a five-year ban by the Board Of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) on Friday over his involvement in an illegal betting scandal that blighted the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) season.
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What might not have been entirely clear to everyone at the meeting was that the plan's success was largely dependent on the city's ability to persuade property owners in the most blighted areas to turn over their holdings to the private trust.
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Last month, the British singer P. J. Harvey released "The Hope Six Demolition Project," an album based on her travels to the most blighted regions of Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington, D.C. Some critics saw this well-intentioned album as naïve and voyeuristic.
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That makes it unlikely to stir the kind of public opposition that all but sank Cape Wind, the ambitious development that would have positioned 130 wind machines just five miles off Cape Cod but stalled in a political storm over blighted vistas.
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An anti-opioid effort won't be effective unless it's part of a broader effort at social and economic reweaving, a set of efforts to either help people move out of rural, blighted communities or to find jobs and social networks while there.
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The 37-year-old, who won at Augusta in 2008, plays on the European Tour at the Joburg Open this week as he seeks to rekindle a career that held much promise but has been blighted by injury and a loss of form.
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The slow burn of climate change is driving West Africans to cross the Sahara, risking their lives, to find a new place where they can earn a living — away from the droughts and heat that have blighted land where crops once grew.
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A flow of articles in Communist Party publications in recent weeks has argued that the United States' tumultuous past year showed it to be dysfunctional and dissolute, and blighted by corruption, social and political polarization, reckless debt and an enfeebled news media.
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America's best gymnasts have shaken their heads for years at the failure of their national federation to understand the blighted culture of their sport, one that allowed a team doctor to abuse them for decades while the sport's leaders looked the other way.
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Designed as a public comfort station as part of the library, which opened in 1911, the bathroom was closed in later decades as the park descended into a blighted eyesore, a place best avoided that was overrun with drug dealers and criminals.
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AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) - A "National Army" being set up by Syrian rebels with Turkey's help could become a long-term obstacle to President Bashar al-Assad's recovery of the northwest - if they can end factional rivalries that have long blighted the opposition.
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Trump during his campaign promised to revitalize inner city communities, but frequently conflated his outreach to low-income Americans with outreach to black and brown Americans -- describing a picture of daily life for African-Americans as a blighted war zone filled with crime and poverty.
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When Trump says, "What have you got to lose?" he means that there are good black Americans whose lives are constantly, imminently threatened by crime, and who need tougher policing to keep them safe and less economic competition to improve their (presumably blighted) neighborhoods.
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Advocates, who include Donald Trump's Council of Economic Advisers Chair Kevin Hassett and Jared Bernstein, a former Obama administration adviser, hope it shifts capital from buoyant stock markets and high-value real estate to blighted rural pockets, struggling suburbs, or ailing inner city neighborhoods.
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It's a brilliant grift, taken at a distance: Amazon promises jobs—often low-skill sortation and fulfillment jobs in to-be-built warehouses in small, blighted cities without much of a local economy, like San Bernardino, California—in exchange for a buffet of subsidies.
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THE RELATIVES of Gerard McKinney, one of the 143 people shot dead by the British army on the day in January 1972 known as Bloody Sunday, stand out among the scores of families whose existence was blighted by those events (some are pictured above).
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But Trump's bleak portrait of life in middle America suggests a knowledge of areas hard hit by the decline in manufacturing—blighted areas like my home town in central New York—that isn't present in Clinton's Reaganesque paeans to the goodness and greatness of America.
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If he pulls it off, Argentina could become a bright spot in an emerging markets landscape blighted by Latin American corruption scandals, slower commodities demand from China and fear higher U.S. interest rates could push investment out of developing countries and toward the dollar.
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At the start of an emergency conference called by the Food and Agriculture Organization to map out regional action, FAO southern Africa coordinator David Phiri said an outbreak of the fall armyworm, devouring maize crops in some key producer countries, had blighted the season's prospects.
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And Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, a vehement critic of the ICC, was no doubt content when Dominic Ongwen, a leader of the murderous Lord's Resistance Army that has blighted northern Uganda, stood before the court in The Hague at the end of last month.
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Rugeley has a blighted reputation, as undercover journalist James Bloodworth reported that while working there in 2016, the working culture resembled a "prison," and that he found a bottle of urine left by a worker apparently too pushed for time to use the bathroom.
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Advocates, who include Donald Trump's Council of Economic Advisers Chair Kevin Hassett and Jared Bernstein, a former Obama administration adviser, hope it shifts capital from buoyant stock markets and high-value real estate to blighted rural pockets, struggling suburbs, or ailing inner-city neighborhoods.
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Ms. Lane (whose natural commanding presence is put to strangely artificial use) portrays the love-blighted Ranevskaya, who returns to her provincial childhood home, where her older brother, Gaev (John Glover, looking and acting like a wonky Roald Dahl character), lives in blinkered idleness.
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At a tax auction, he and a fellow Michigan alum paid $5,025 for a six-unit apartment complex in the city's blighted North End, to act as the center of operations as they converted a nearby, 1.5-acre plot of land into an urban farm.
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In the preface, Greenblatt describes his own mother's deep anxiety about death and how that affected him, and how Lucretius's poem offered him hope: She had blighted much of her life — and cast a shadow on my own — in the service of her obsessive fear.
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We've covered a lot of good metal, and the vast majority of it— from Svalbard to Zeal & Ardor to Ilsa to Gaylord—was made by people with something to fucking say about our blighted society and the vampiric economic system under which we labor.
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As New York has poured billions of dollars into economic development and trumpeted the rebirth of once-blighted regions of the state, the money awarded through one of the governor's signature programs has flowed disproportionately to predominantly white communities, according to a new report.
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Running from the landmark Opera Tower, a 23-story beachfront monolith that has seen better days, down to Banana Beach, a laid-back sunbathing patch with a volleyball court and beachfront bar, it was blighted by construction sites, empty lots and low-slung buildings.
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But the bureau vehemently protested against the publication of the document, which it said was blighted by the omission of facts that offered an insight into the true events that led up to the request at a special court for the surveillance of Page.
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A source of indulgence, entertainment, and superstition for many working-class black families throughout the country, The World According to Fannie Davis offers a fascinating glimpse of how it all worked, set against the backdrop of a thriving Detroit and then a blighted one. —T.
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Hundreds of thousands of Romanians have demonstrated in the past week in cities across the country, thronging Bucharest's boulevards in scenes that will not have gone unnoticed elsewhere in Eastern Europe, blighted by corruption and cozy ties between business and politics since the end of communism.
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Despite all the advantages of incumbency, Mr Mahama was ejected after just one term by voters fed up with how he had squandered Ghana's new oil wealth and allowed the country to be blighted by double-digit inflation and a youth unemployment rate of almost 50%.
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Blighted by sliding letter volumes and union tensions, the company posted productivity gains of 2174.4% for the full year on Thursday morning, below its 2% target, and cited delays to its transformation plan and economic uncertainty as increasing the likelihood of a loss in 2020-21.
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South Bend's northwest, pocked by vacant lots, broken curbs and blighted by streets that residents say have gone unpaved for years, is a world away from the sleek, revitalized downtown at the center of Buttigieg's audacious argument for placing himself in the highest office in the land.
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No. Although it was among a select group of paintings in the 1847 exhibition, Macdonald's depiction of a blighted store barely merited comment, no matter that it was a real-time portrayal of the dread and rage in the Irish countryside, the imminent starvation and death implied.
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From the beginning, they were mostly meant as placeholders: Gardeners generally contract with the city as stewards, not owners, of the blighted lots, an arrangement codified in the late 1970s as a way to reduce barren spaces in a city grappling with a host of problems.
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" In a dark passage that foreshadowed the president's description of "American carnage" in his inauguration speech, Nunes cited his own hometown, where "the radical left and big government combined to take a real-life Garden of Eden … and reduce it to a blighted, drought-stricken calamity.
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Among those cities included Toronto, where the group is already working to transform a stretch of blighted waterfront, Denver, Colorado; Detroit, Michigan; and Alameda in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is a residential area buttressed by acres of empty land that was previously a naval base.
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In emerging markets, the Argentina peso tumbled to a record low on Thursday despite a dramatic rate hike by the central bank, pointing to a lack of investor confidence in Latin America's No.3 economy, which is blighted by one of the world's highest inflation rates.
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Germany's two biggest and most established parties have had a torrid summer, blighted by infighting over immigration that is flaring up again after violent right-wing protests in the eastern city of Chemnitz followed the fatal stabbing of a German man, for which two migrants were arrested.
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Gone are the vast swaths of publicly owned land and blighted or abandoned private apartments that the city took over in the 1970s and '80s, and that served as the fuel for Mayor Edward I. Koch's effort to create more than 150,000 units of affordable housing.
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Bråvalla Festival, which this year was headlined by The Killers, The Chainsmokers and Skepta, has been blighted by news of sexual crime since its inception in 2013, while last weekend saw four rapes and 23 sexual assaults reported over the course of the four-day event.
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In New York, where blighted subway trains seem quaintly historic and the latest from a Banksy or a Neckface or a Swoon or a Lady Pink is met with oohs and Instagram snaps, the debate over whether graffiti can be art seems to have been settled.
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His "What the hell do you have to lose?" sales pitch, in which he portrayed black communities as blighted by unemployment, poverty and crime, was poorly received by many African-American leaders, in part because they were often delivered before mostly white audiences at his rallies.
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The vitality of youth has been drained altogether from the 20-something friends who assemble in "Sunday," the British playwright Jack Thorne's new play about a listless New York book club that gathers at the ashen butt end (or is it the blighted beginning?) of the week.
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"I do not believe he is a racist at all," Mr. Gonzalez said, pointing to Mr. Trump's push for programs to rehabilitate blighted areas and the presence of Darrell Scott, an African-American pastor and a member of Mr. Trump's executive transition team and diversity coalition.
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The militants, which are splintered into many groups, say they want a greater share of Nigeria's oil wealth - which accounts for around 70 percent of national income - to be passed on to communities in the impoverished region and for areas blighted by oil spills to be cleaned up.
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Del Potro, whose career has been blighted by a number of wrist injuries, won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics in August and played through the pain barrier as he rallied from two sets down with a broken finger to level the tie in Zagreb on Sunday.
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His company has faced accusations of discrimination against black tenants; he has alleged falsely in the past that President Obama was not born in the United States; and as a champion of aggressive policing, he has stirred indignation by caricaturing black neighborhoods as blighted by crime and economic despair.
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In this they sounded less like new flower children than like the skipped-generation offspring of the "lost generation," set adrift during the Great Depression and hoboing through the blighted landscape of a ruined economy until at last Roosevelt threw them the lifeline of the National Youth Administration.
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For patients who are pregnant in their first trimester with a new diagnosis of acute leukemia — a cancer requiring high-dose chemotherapy that is almost certain to induce death of the fetus — I have recommended termination, as a blighted pregnancy would endanger the life of the immunocompromised mother.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Thousands of mourners bade farewell on Tuesday to Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's longest-serving president, under whose rule the country was haunted by corruption and gross violations of human rights even as it became a stable nation in a turbulent region blighted with wars and crises.
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Even as the broader city's visitor numbers dropped after the French bloodshed and the March bombings in Brussels itself, tour guides report growing interest from those keen to see the long-blighted district for themselves and view an industrial heritage that once earned Molenbeek the sobriquet "Little Manchester".
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In the 1930s, Narcissa Niblack Thorne, a Chicago socialite, hired Depression-blighted workers to help build her exquisite room boxes, which mimicked interiors including a contemporary New Mexican dining room, a French Revolution-era bathroom and a Georgian parlor (a stamp-size Gainsborough portrait hangs over the mantel).
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Driving the news: Nearly 2 dozen city leaders, as part of the National League of Cities Housing Task Force, released a report this week concluding that blighted properties are one of the biggest challenges for housing in American cities — but one not often addressed by typical efforts to boost economic growth.
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Facing cameras in front of a bright-colored mural — a homage to Mr. Gray — in the blighted West Baltimore neighborhood where he grew up, she defended herself, sounding every bit as fiery and passionate as she was a year ago in May when she drew national attention in announcing the charges.
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Starting last fall and scheduled to run for two years, the program was to free the economically ailing city of Pine Bluff of 600 blighted houses while the participants, here in the state with the nation's fastest-growing prison population, were to gain valuable instruction, experience and even some money.
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The Chinese film industry has been "blighted" by cinemas and distributors cheating to inflate box office figures through accounting ploys or other tricks, such as claiming ticket sales that exceed an auditorium's capacity, state-owned Xinhua news agency said in its report on the Ip Man 3 fraud last week.
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In Kara's (Valerie Curry) first scene, driving home with her cartoonishly malevolent owner, Todd, we get glimpses of what the margins of prosperity might look like in a near-future Detroit: they pass the exposed wooden skeletons of burnt row houses; a freeway under construction looms over their blighted neighborhood.
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And yet—even with Nike tapping The Drew's grassroots mythology to extend its market reach; even as players, and sometimes whole teams, come increasingly from out of state; even though the weekend showdowns are no longer a blighted neighborhood's best-kept secret—the organic spirit of this community jewel is thriving.
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Ben Carson, who took Donald J. Trump on a tour of blighted neighborhoods in Detroit during the presidential campaign, including his boyhood home, has been chosen by Mr. Trump to oversee one of the government's main efforts to lift American cities as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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The use of this technique electrifies the background with feeling, but it also represents a kind of abandonment: if the female subject is ignored — "while anyone could witness rot writ all over my blighted arrangement, / no one stepped in" — then the speaker sinks into and becomes one with the scenery.
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The artist was born in New Haven in 1963 and grew up under the visionary spell of Modernism, which saw the city attempt to increase the quality of life for residents through a government-funded building program that added highway connectors to inner-city neighborhoods and renovated so-called "blighted" blocks.
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" Paul, a Wrexham fan, also believes the heavy-handed policing has had a negative impact on the derby: "The fixture is blighted by the inability of the North Wales and Cheshire police forces to safely police a game that attracts around 6,23 at Wrexham, and less than 4,000 at Chester.
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This episode had brilliant conversations between a mother and a son (never mind that they are protected by a lumbering Frankenstein); a lost soul among his surrogate family (who, yes, commands dragons); and between Davos, the blighted realist and Melisandre, the witch startled into self-doubt (until the God of Light undoes it).
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The eight in the morning trudge to the local hill, reservoir, park, field, or drugs flat with a blue off-license bag full of tinnies and a saucer-eyed slab of regret is one of the tiny moments of universally recognized transcendence available in these blighted little times, on this declining little island.
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Yet "Ill Winds" does not dwell on how the United States has blighted its democratic credibility, gliding past a darker history that could reappear during future contests against China or Russia: how the Cold War drove Washington's support for vicious anti-Communist governments in Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, Argentina, Iran and elsewhere.
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Many areas of the West — where timber cutting has declined and even the thinning of trees for fire safety is sometimes contested by conservation groups — are choked with younger smaller trees that can burn readily, patches of thick undergrowth or blighted areas where insects or disease have left dead trees standing in place.
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Mr. Duggan, who was elected the city's first white mayor in 2100 years amid the legal proceedings, has pointed to signs of change since: Detroit has 256,275 new streetlights that actually turn on; emergency medical service response times have dropped; and thousands of empty, blighted houses have been torn down and hauled away.
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"The Beguiled" is, as you would hope, pruned of the misogyny that blighted its predecessor, which viewed the residents of the seminary as hysterics, prudes, or vamps, but we still get the disheartening impression that they have been pining for a man to come along, as if they had nothing better to do.
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The militants say they want a greater share of Nigeria's oil wealth - which accounts for around 70 percent of national income - to be passed on to communities in the impoverished region and for areas blighted by oil spills to be cleaned up (Reporting by Anamesere Igboeroteonwu; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by)
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Instead of plaudits ahead of the phone's previously planned launch on April 26 in the United States, the South Korean conglomerate has been blighted by technology journalists reporting breaks, bulges and blinking screens, raising the spectre of the combustible Galaxy Note 7 three years ago which the firm ultimately pulled from shelves at massive cost.
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America and the world are now waking up to the series of misguided austerity policies, bad public policy-decisions and attempts to cover up the mess that have led to the exposure to poisonous lead of the entire population of a poor, mostly black Midwestern city blighted by unemployment and high rates of crime.
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Viewed through the distorting prism of the Brexit debate, this might be interpreted as a happy outcome for the remaining 27 nations of the EU: they will be free to go about their business without the burden of the UK's existential crisis (which has blighted its EU membership ever since 1973, some would argue).
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He offered a few new proposals, including a plan to use tax holidays to help cities, a plan to encourage foreign companies to invest in blighted American neighborhoods, and a new "federal disaster designation" that would help direct funding to poverty-stricken urban areas, though Mr. Trump did not mention where the new money would come from.
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The rambling, blighted structures that once represented the city's reputation as a booming seaport were newly rife for site-specific artwork and documentation by the likes of Gordon Matta-Clark, whose 1975 "Days End" — five gaping incisions into the now-destroyed Pier 52 — presided over the comings and goings of gay men looking for connection and satisfaction.
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Close your eyes, and little has changed, dramaturgically speaking, in the forty-eight years between the time that Georgina dreamed her dream and that Celie, a poor, obscure, and blighted black woman, living in the early-twentieth-century South, embraces her own view of life's dreams and realities in "The Color Purple" (at the Bernard B. Jacobs).
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While much of these reforms are aimed at India's public banking sector blighted by bad loans, outmoded technology and poor management, they will have a knock-on effect on the private banking sector as rapid urbanization causes large populations to move from state-owned banks in rural areas to more modern, private banks in urban India.
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Dave Baggott, the founder and co-owner of the Raptors and a former minor league player, said he was proud of the team's role in resurrecting a blighted part of downtown Ogden; of the hundreds of thousands of dollars it donates to the community; of a policy not to charge admission to fans 80 and older.
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Saunders's condition is increasingly precarious, but for the moment she remains a graceful, innovative writer — getting her thoughts on the page helps her keep track of them — and she is still capable of making connections with the ease of a switchboard operator, her blighted neurocircuitry notwithstanding: like the one between her childhood habit of dissociating and her current mini-sabbaticals from reality.
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Russia was a mess, its economy still blighted by a post-Soviet collapse worse than the Great Depression in the United States, its military so feeble that it had lost a war in tiny Chechnya, its population so disillusioned with Mr. Yeltsin's promises of a new capitalist dawn that it had elected a parliament filled with communists, cranks and crypto-fascists.
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Authorities in smog-blighted northern provinces such as Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Shanxi have urged their major industrial cities to slash steel output ahead of winter, part of the Ministry of Environmental Protection's smog battle plan to cut levels of hazardous airborne particles known as PM2.5 air pollutants by more than a quarter in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area by 2017 from 2012 levels.
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Over 100 urban centers have already bent over backwards to submit their most enticing proposals to Amazon in the hopes that favorable subsidies, tax breaks, regulation reform or whatever else Big Orange wants will coax the Seattle-based megacorp to kickstart local economies blighted by financial crises, a withering manufacturing sector, and the scourge of the "gig" economy which Amazon itself has had no small part in fostering.
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To the extent that the property developer should be taken at face value, he tells supporters that he is an America-first unilateralist willing to ban Muslims from entry into the country because there is so much "incredible hate" in the Muslim world, and so many Muslims are "bad people"—even if he has recently sought to finesse that sectarian ban into a policy of excluding arrivals from terrorist-blighted countries.
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Any failure to remove, correct or abate the violations, shall result in the issuance of a citation in accordance with the ordinance with fines imposed of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day for each day the Blighted Property remains in violation, which can be enforceable as a lien on your property, and which may also be converted into a Court Judgement, and may cause the removal or abatement of the violation at your expense.
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In developed countries museums are being championed by a wide variety of interest groups: city fathers who see iconic buildings and great collections as a tourist draw; urban planners who regard museums as a magic wand to bring blighted city areas back to life; media that like to hype blockbuster exhibitions; and rich people who want to put their wealth to work in the service of philanthropy ("a way for the rich to launder their souls", as one director put it).
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From the first full-service grocery store in DC's blighted Ward 7 in four decades to an environmentally sustainable recycling center for e-waste from electronics in Arkansas, a vocational training center for people with disabilities in Ohio, the reconstruction of a badly damaged fishing dock on tribal land in Washington, and an extensive broadband project in Alaska, the NMTC is helping better the lives of Americans in all corners of the United States and those capital-starved towns and communities in between.
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