We could also fulfil our need to reinvent ourselves, and not look scruffy, by making our own new clothes from reconditioned fabrics.
They celebrate India's reconditioned body".India Unbound" is by an unabashed pro, an ex-boss of the Indian part of Procter & Gamble who has moved into business consultancy and writing (he has done a novel and three plays).
The funnel for grain from the centre-west widened a bit earlier this year when Brasil Ferrovias, an ailing railway company, had its finances reconditioned, clearing the way for the expansion of Ferronorte, a line running from Mato Grosso to the port of Santos in São Paulo state.
North Korean exports, which consist of such things as film and television animation, reconditioned cars and, inevitably, arms, are worth less than $1 billion a year, only a few per cent of GDP.
His aqueduct, which brought water from the mountains to the north, has been reconditioned and still serves the modern city.
Bought as a crippled seven-year-old, he was reconditioned by his trainer Ginger McCain who ran him on the sand and in the sea.
Established as commercial centres on newly opened or reconditioned trade routes, or as strongholds for the pacification of parts of the Seleucid empire, the cities aided in the Hellenization of western Asia and subsequently in the spread of Christianity in the region.
Turner is best known for her creation at the Olympics, a nine-foot sculpture of a diving man made out of reconditioned Coca Cola bottles and cans.
The words "reconditioned", "mod" and even "live" might sound old school, but this is a device which delivers a Moon-landing quantity of data on speed, position and elapsed vertical, plus "jump analytics" and texts.
Amstrad's rise in the last 29 years from a one-man band selling aerials and reconditioned televisions into stock-market darling and perhaps Britain's best known name in consumer electronics invites comparison with a string of other home-grown business success stories: Branson, Hanson, Conran, Lord King and Arnold Weinstock.
Near the garden is an outdoor painting studio, and a parking space for his 2000 black Lexus and a couple of antique cars he's reconditioned — a 1939 Ford and a 1933 Ford pickup.
