Commercial construction boomed, and multibillion-dollar refurbishing programs of subsidized housing and transportation systems were instigated.
When Metro-North came into being in 1983, it began a program of refurbishing them.
The secretive JASON group of academic physicists have given a thumbs up to the current program of refurbishing nuclear warheads in the U.S. stockpile instead of building new, more reliable ones.
And Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley addresses whether excluding churches from secular state aid programs — like refurbishing playgrounds — violates the First Amendment.
This makes it possible to upgrade a small share of components in newer models and initiate trade-in programs aimed at refurbishing and reusing components with longer, useful lives.
On the positive side, the Far East Command initiated a program of reclaiming and refurbishing war materiel from abandoned stocks throughout the Pacific.
First, the abandoned palazzo was cleaned & refurbished, tickets & programs were prepared & buckets of water were placed about in case of fire.
Also nixed was the president's plan to rehabilitate and refurbish homes in a program aimed at stabilizing neighborhoods that have been hit hard by foreclosures.
But an elaborate Energy Department program to maintain and refurbish warheads, the Stockpile Stewardship Program, has proved highly effective.
Beginning in 1999, MDOT spent substantial sums of money over a five-year program to upgrade M-65 and US 23 by refurbishing and replacing bridges and adding more passing lanes.
In the third quarter, 33% of sales were for original equipment (i.e. new aircraft), 37% for refurbishing aircraft in the aftermarket, 26% to defense and space programs and 4% to all other markets.
