After his casket had been removed, cemetery workers lowered box upon box of farewell notes into the empty pit, a process that was also broadcast live.
As massive liquidation sales wrap up in Borders stores nationwide — they've moved way past the buy-two-get-one-free table by now — the fraught corporation is beginning to unload its empty buildings, a process that should be finished by the end of next month.
By Elizabeth Minkel August 17, 2011 As massive liquidation sales wrap up in Borders stores nationwide — they've moved way past the buy-two-get-one-free table by now — the fraught corporation is beginning to unload its empty buildings, a process that should be finished by the end of next month.
"I'm so angry because they promised us a process that would not leave us with an empty arena and vague promises," said Ms. Weinberg.
De Mistura appears to be following the model of the Oslo talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation: their initial 1993 agreement was dramatic but was followed by interim deals, while the toughest "final status" issues were left until the end of a "peace process" that was emptied of content until it ground to a halt.
The next morning, the Boardwalk lay ruined and the family was at the beginning of a process that took months and involved emptying the kitchen of raw sewage and seeing bits of their lives, from baby pictures to Dr. Trasciatti's cake mixer, hauled away by sanitation workers.
Not everyone even agrees that demolishing all the empty buildings, a process that Detroit is already racing to carry out, or clearing out neighborhoods that have lost population, is the right approach.
The buckets had to be emptied by hand, a two-hour process that might be repeated three or four times a day.
After researching, she found out the cause could be traced back to coal mining, in particular "slurry," residue from the coal-cleaning process that's injected into empty mine shafts, where it can ultimately contaminate groundwater.
Too good to be true--a city that empties.
