In the process, our home went from shabby chic to simply shabby.
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"Stand-up comedy is a shabby business, made up of shabby fellows like me who cross the country, stay at shabby hotels, and tell jokes they no longer find funny," he writes in the introduction.
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Before, she sleeps on a bunkbed in a perfectly fine, slightly shabby apartment with an equally shabby dog who refuses to listen to any command.
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On a brightly brisk early spring morning, we drive the few blocks from her shabby two-story adobe apartment building in an equally shabby part of town to Cabrillo Beach.
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Altogether, that's a savings of $124.50 — not too shabby, huh?
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Jalopnik noticed how shabby the thing looked on closer inspection.
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Schools and hospitals are shabby and life expectancy is low.
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Getting a wedding pic with Beyonce is not too shabby.
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Needless to say, not to shabby for a first launch.
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Not too shabby for one of our favorite streaming devices.
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Tunde Wey's vegan take on jollof rice isn't shabby either.
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The lobby at the main entrance wasn't too shabby, either ...
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Now, breakfast: somewhere that looks kind of shabby or McDonald's?
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The view of L.A. and the coastline's not too shabby.
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Not too shabby for their first two days in business.
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But Ms. Winslet fills this shabby character with feverish life.
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She had chosen a place herself; a warm, shabby diner.
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The shabby bathrooms are down a steep flight of stairs.
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Not too shabby, with sunny breaks in the clouds possible.
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A little bit shabby but in a human, endearing way?
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The first half of "The Stranger" depicts a shabby idyll.
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Not only was it shabby, but it didn't feel safe.
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The sound quality of these earbuds isn't too shabby either.
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Not that the McKinney facility was too shabby for schoolboys.
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As for the shabby and insulting treatment of Waters and Ryan?
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You're a logical person, but your intuition isn't too shabby either.
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Not too shabby for four minutes spent talking in a car.
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Not too shabby for a tiny little machine of its price.
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Herding has a long and shabby history in the polling world.
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The laptop's nine-hour battery life is not too shabby, either.
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The collection of clients isn't shabby for such a young company.
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So, not as fast as a human, but not too shabby.
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Not too shabby — unless you're out of toilet paper, that is.
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Not too shabby for a guy who turns 74 this March.
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By comparison it is shabby; its ethos reflects altruism, not pomp.
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He's worked with Beyonce and Alicia Keys, so not too shabby.
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Its top speed is 45 miles per hour -- not too shabby.
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The views are incredible ... and yeah, Greece ain't too shabby either.
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She's director David Ayer's go-to girl – not too shabby, ey?
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But they give little thought to their shabby treatment of introverts.
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Cinematically, this edition isn't too shabby: On Sunday at 4 p.m.
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And Penn Station has definite shortcomings beyond the dispiriting, shabby look.
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Not too shabby for simply having a particular combination of phenotypes!
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And, a whole terabyte of storage space isn't too shabby, either.
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All things considered ... a potential $925k a piece ain't too shabby.
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For Joan to be excommunicated for her work was very shabby.
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We were weak and slender, and often sickly, and shabby toolmakers.
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Tunis has the shabby Mediterranean charm of a southern-Italian city.
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Local residents, meanwhile, live in shabby barrios that tourists seldom see.
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We especially loved a shabby little tavern called Bobby's Idle Hour.
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His grades in public school were shabby, with I.Q. scores to match.
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He's lean, hunched, and dressed in the shabby manner of journalists everywhere.
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There was even a guard shack inside a shabby chain link fence.
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The video streaming quality isn't too shabby, to tell you the truth.
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And the £75,000 (roughly $97,000) a year salary isn't too shabby either.
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Honestly, the view is not too shabby to say the very least.
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At Syrian checkpoints, irregulars in mismatched uniforms and shabby sneakers keep watch.
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The noise reduction isn't too shabby on the S7 Edge pic, either.
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I know so many rich Jewish people who live in shabby houses.
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The outfits she wears to the show's ballroom competitions often feel shabby.
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The real world is shabby and the right thing doesn't always happen.
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He considered Mr. el-Sis's grand plan to prettify his shabby neighborhood.
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Lister, globe-trotting and intellectually ravenous, bemoaned her stolid and "shabby" hometown.
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The once-desolate boardwalk and shabby downtown have become vibrant retail corridors.
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"I found that to be a shabby-chic aesthetic," Ms. Shah said.
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Not too shabby since I usually have to work Sunday afternoons anyway.
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The two-bedroom apartment was small, shabby and on the sixth floor.
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Instead, Shteyngart unveils them to the reader in a sad, shabby burlesque.
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I think the treatment was shabby of Merrick Garland and President Obama's nominee.
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Unfortunately, the program was plagued by corruption, poor planning, and shabby construction methods.
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The past half-century has not been an irredeemably shabby one for IBM.
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Even still, $500 isn't too shabby when you consider what you're getting here.
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Fear crept in when the "doctor" handed her pills in a shabby room.
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That's not too shabby, but it's not on the cusp of retirement, either.
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Photo: Victoria Song (Gizmodo)As for sound quality, the Frames aren't too shabby.
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Though they cost an extra $40, Samsung's IconX 2018's aren't too shabby.
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Not too shabby — but also, probably chump change for most of these folks.
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Another address led to a locked door in a shabby Beijing office building.
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Her form was on point ... and her kettlebell workout wasn't too shabby either.
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Sprint's ongoing efforts to revitalize its business aren't looking too shabby, for now.
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Not too shabby for a medium that didn't exist some two decades ago.
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Not too shabby for a ceremony already set in a total tropical paradise.
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Tonight our defensive start was good even though the second quarter was shabby.
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Turns out the Biebs isn't too shabby when it comes to the game.
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It wasn't too shabby a place to begin with: The 5,871 sq. ft.
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Not too shabby for a group that started out as a cover band.
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On weekends, they wore what were basically shabby trainer suits and T-shirts.
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Especially if that course has been underused for years and is looking shabby.
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It's dry, a bit shabby, but long enough and good for this purpose.
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She grew up in a shabby, stilted wooden house with no running water.
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That's not too shabby, but still down nearly 8% from the year before.
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I thought back to my most recent visit to Laolao's shabby apartment here.
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Kim visited Kumgang in October, and slammed the resort as "shabby" and backward.
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I liked that it's not exactly shabby but nothing trying to impress you.
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And hey, $22299.99 for a 24-inch smart TV is not too shabby.
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Cold winter light entered through a window that looked onto a shabby courtyard.
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That's a nice place to book... I was living in a shabby apartment.
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When finally arrested in the shabby rural farmhouse, he put up no resistance.
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That's none too shabby for a venture firm that was founded just last year.
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The wine may be a major draw, but the food's not too shabby either.
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Of course, it's none too shabby a development for first-time founder Avasthi, either.
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China's rental housing is often shabby because it is aimed at low-income households.
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A shabby book-filled bungalow to live in, on pay of £50 a week.
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It is true that China's gleaming coastal cities make Taipei's 1980s skyscrapers look shabby.
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India's GDP growth rate of 6-7% on his watch is not too shabby.
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It's another beautiful day — a little warm (80+) and windy — but still not shabby.
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Anyway, he points out, it wasn't too shabby for five minutes on the spot.
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But some hardliners think the 1998 compromise, too, was shabby, and are fighting on.
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The Dream Machine didn't quite take 10 years, but eight isn't too shabby, either.
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"Hey, but not [too] shabby for a girl full of Dumplins & Macaroni!" she wrote.
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The thought of inviting the Ahmeds over to their small, shabby apartment felt ludicrous.
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"Not too shabby: Trump tax plan nails corporate rate, errs on income" https://t.
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A lot of them are genteel but shabby, as Powell himself was for decades.
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Our three critters arrived in shabby-chic boxes fashioned out of old license plates.
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Not too shabby for a toy, though — if you can even consider this one.
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Overstock describes this nightstand as "shabby chic," which is Monica's aesthetic in a nutshell.
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The redesign will be extensive, as the building had become fairly shabby and outdated.
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"They are destroying it, they are cheapening it, they're making it shabby," he said.
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Still, a few hundred million dollars isn't too shabby for buying a $2 ticket.
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But they infuriate other legal experts who call their commentary shabby and intentionally misleading.
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But for an hour's work in this current climate, not too shabby at all!
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Carlsberg is worlds better by comparison, with a not-too-shabby 3.03 out of 5.
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Public spaces feel shabby by northern European standards, but people are good-humoured about it.
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If my nails are looking shabby then, chances are, I'm having an endometriosis flare-up.
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It used to be a shabby-chic yellow and is now a slick, shiny navy.
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There were corporate types and freelancers, Shabby Chic moms and dads pushing SUV-sized strollers.
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Not too shabby for someone who is just barely old enough to drive in America.
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It offers two operational speed settings, too, which isn't too shabby for a tiny fan.
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It took me away from the gossipy cocoon of my mother's shabby gold Toyota Corolla.
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When autonomously driving around, there's no need to look at the shabby world around you.
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Our reporter visited a shabby zoo in Laos where an adjoining restaurant serves tiger meat.
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A loud warning of this development came in 2011, cleverly disguised as shabby tabloid nonsense.
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That being said, his wages aren't too shabby either — he earned $65 million last year.
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They are precisely furnished chambers, shabby but tidy, that seem suspended in a murky twilight.
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That's pretty shabby treatment for the companies that are the economic engine of our country.
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But shabby Alexandria, like the rest of Egypt, has seen little benefit from the revolution.
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New York was in the doldrums and Greenwich Village still its old and shabby self.
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From there, Ms. Chenoweth progressed to shabby chic, then to what she calls modern chic.
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Some buy shabby trailers to stay in near their farms or sleep in their cars.
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I began to feel bad about how shabby my own life was next to his.
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Big difference but, either way, not a shabby payday for 1 night's worth of work.
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Our shabby-grand recovery center is now at the center of not only history, but joy.
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Ramírez as Versace at his home estate (top) and Criss as Cunanan at a shabby hotel.
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DURING HIS final years, Vasily Grossman kept a few cherished mementoes in his shabby Moscow flat.
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Rachel Ashwell Shabby Chic Couture: 15 percent off sale items (using code extra15); through May 30.
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It seemed like a comfortable retirement: not too expensive, but not shabby in any appreciable way.
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The answer, I knew, lay beyond the tourist district, in the shabby streets of their rione.
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All in all, not too shabby for a couple brothers who taught themselves how to animate.
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Not too shabby—but probably still well below what he'd make if his audience were American.
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Not too shabby for someone who describes himself as a "true scrub" in his YouTube description.
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Considering it was only his third stab at game development, the game doesn't look too shabby.
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But, America's first billionaire president is still worth $3.5 billion, so No. 544 ain't too shabby.
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Not a shabby idea, but the insidious thing here is that Nextt charges $2790 per idea.
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Billions of dollars were spent transforming the shabby subtropical resort town into a winter sports paradise.
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Only a disused, shabby warehouse — one of the company's original buildings — harked to the company's past.
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The "casting couch" is a shabby, repulsive cliche, but it's also carries a kernel of truth.
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Vopos and GDR women in their shabby trouser-suits and coldblooded Stasi—these are his signatures.
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Not too shabby for an artist who shuffled off this mortal coil almost 20 years ago.
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CAIRO — After five days of treatment in a shabby Yemeni hospital, Luai Sabri died on Tuesday.
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"Back then, the island was all shabby little huts, there were no buildings," Mr. Wang said.
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It is like meeting your executioner and having every shabby misdeed of your ugly past forgiven.
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The first song I heard by them was "Kangaroo Pocket," off their 2014 record Too Shabby.
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Michelin says the odds of winning are 1 in 4,500--not too shabby for a free ride.
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It's charmingly shabby, usually half empty, with the kind of meathead equipment we need for our workouts.
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But if you are into the keyboard, the rest of the Key 2's not too shabby.
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It still generated net income of $21.7,222, which isn't too shabby given how young the company was.
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We didn't get here overnight, but rather through decades of shabby, self-interested politics on all sides.
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Not too shabby for a guy whose career seems to be on a never-ending roller coaster.
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It's also a not-too-shabby #55 Top Grossing Overall application, and a Top 20 Music app.
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It may seem that this new golden era of crony capitalism is coming to a shabby end.
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Even hardcore conservatives still stewing over the shabby defenestration of Robert Bork find Cruz cloying and unctuous.
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Should this shabby precedent be established, what sub-cabinet officials and bureaucrats might be singled out next?
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That's none too shabby for a computer geek who attended Monte Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif.
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Wearing a Shabby Apple dress and Vince Camuto shoes Brian Nichols/People Who's your favorite Disney princess?
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It's Vacation Bible School and Sunday School and girls' Bible study, located inside one shabby-chic warren.
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Malaysia still offers a not-too-shabby 4.2 percent yield on its 10-year investment grade bonds.
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I find the idea of a family of outsiders helping each other in this shabby world romantic.
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Dazzling yet shabby, abundant yet decaying, the East London street market is a ramshackle bazaar of contradictions.
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Not too shabby, especially considering all the hyperbolic predictions of economic doom that went with Trump's election.
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The shabby grave of Pol Pot, who died in 1998, only receives a few visitors a day.
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It was a typical day in musical Camelot, a shabby-chic Bohemia bedazzled with rock star mementos.
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It clearly amused Reeves to depict modern Transylvania as a shabby police state ruled by inept policemen.
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None of them understood the slow burn of the publishing hierarchy or the industry's shabby, nostalgic glamour.
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Last summer, I visited Mr. Darboe, the founder of the United Democratic Party, at his shabby office.
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External threats—far-right thugs, rogue veterans, even North Korean honeytraps—do impinge on Lamb's shabby domain.
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Cramton Auditorium, the site of freshman orientation, was worn and shabby, as were many of the facilities.
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Not too shabby, especially since Puff's purchase already made him the most expensive living African-American artist.
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It's got heart rate monitoring, NFC payments, and GPS—not too shabby for a smartwatch priced at $255.
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Authorities said one room in the home smelled of urine and feces and the children wore shabby clothes.
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He wants government-run health care [viewers see a shabby hospital], abortion on demand and welfare for all.
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Mark had left his jacket on the shabby orange sofa that had been scarred by our cat's scratching.
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Overall, they've had a high proportion of users leave because they've found love, and that's not too shabby.
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Not too shabby for a horror movie starring a 59-year-old woman wearing a gray fright wig.
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Nio's backers aren't too shabby either, given that they include Chinese tech giants, Baidu, Tencent Holdings and Xiaomi.
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Most homes I've been inside — whether in New York, the suburbs, or a farm town — are also shabby.
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Although the main attraction of these cabins is no human interaction, the technology perks aren't too shabby either.
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Its stores had become shabby and it had diversified too far, into areas such as insurance and property.
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Much as we put ourselves down, for a small bunch of islands we ain't too shabby at sport.
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Since people will pay me back, that will be $8 out of pocket per person — not too shabby.
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With 15,000 enchanted boxes ready to be sent out, your chances of winning one really aren't too shabby.
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They're scared that they'll look shabby, and they won't be able to keep up with the celebrity clientele.
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"So when we got into the new place, we left it shabby for six months," Mr. Parker said.
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I also noticed how she was dressed in what looked like a shabby red bathrobe over a nightdress.
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Book-smart and talented, Thandi is the family's only hope of escaping the shabby village of River Bank.
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And by "not too shabby," I mean it boasts a grass terrace and gorgeous views of midtown Manhattan.
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Its "shabby aesthetic and narrative shortcomings are outweighed by its more drastically questionable moral ones," says the Guardian.
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The kind of shabby facial hair that would easily get coated in milk, combined with photoshoot-ready clothing.
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You're one of the smartest signs in the zodiac, Libra, and your psychic abilities aren't too shabby either.
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Poorly stocked shelves and a shabby environment drive customers away, and it is hard to get them back.
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This shabby journalism is causing egregious harm to all involved, particularly our friend, and is simply beneath contempt.
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Its business and management degree, however, isn't too shabby either, rating sixth, the same position as last year.
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"The Initiative" (season 4, episode 7) As plot-heavy season four episodes go, "The Initiative" isn't too shabby.
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A giant Ferris wheel and two gleaming sports stadiums made the Brent Spence Bridge appear shabby by comparison.
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Don says: not the best glass of Champagne to be had in the world, but not too shabby.
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It could be shabby, it could be chic, but I thought it was a really important social record.
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The market has a long-held reputation for being a clearing house of affordable and authentic shabby chic.
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They live in a shabby, cramped house that is literally on the wrong side of the railroad tracks.
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Itinerant, largely undocumented workers devoted to hurricane recovery in the U.S. have endured shabby housing and haphazard payments.
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Russia may be the flavor of the month, but the sad, shabby truth about Booth and his world
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They've taken a wrong turn somewhere and find themselves hunkering down in nowhere towns, dismal cabins, shabby apartments.
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Plus, you'll get to save lives or whatever on the way, so it's not too shabby a job.
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It was Ms. Hogg who essentially invented, through the magazine's exquisitely crumbled aesthetic, the decorating style shabby chic.
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I saw shabby wood-frame houses rotting by the roadside, and picket fences blown over by the wind.
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Westbrook has not been too shabby himself, averaging 31.3 points, 10.7 rebounds and 17 assists against the Warriors.
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Raheel was raised in public housing and spent his high school years intent on escaping his shabby hometown.
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" These newcomers were buying up the "shabby, modest mews and cottages" and turning them into "elegant, expensive residences.
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Oh and he's not too shabby in the Dad department either... is there ANYTHING the man can not do??!!!
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Not too shabby for a teenager who didn't win -- or even finish as the runner-up -- on 'The Four.'
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Their rustic design ideas can transform any space — even my shoebox-sized Brooklyn apartment — into a shabby-chic dream.
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Not too shabby, though naturally, I took that as my cue to find a way to break Google's system.
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Not too shabby for a girl who only just got the right to legally take a sip of alcohol.
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Complete with beaded garlands, shabby-chic stockings, and of course, many candles that we can only assume smell amazing.
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It's a huge boost from its initial projections of a $100 million debut weekend, which isn't too shabby either.
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Legal scholars noted that the shabby quality of their legal argument also had a distinctly Trumpy feel to it.
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Confrontation with the far right followed, and race riots erupted in what was a shabby immigrant enclave in 1958.
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VILLAVICENCIO, A SHABBY city of half a million people, considers itself the gateway to los llanos, Colombia's eastern plains.
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Nick is shot and put into the car, leaving June abandoned shabby mansion in the middle of the woods.
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Not only are the prices not too shabby, but we don't have to scrap on style just to save.
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From flooded to famous in just a few days, not too shabby for two 3-month-old shelter puppies!
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The 6 bedroom property sits on the beach with sweet Caribbean views, and the interior ain't too shabby either.
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Jim Jordan, a disgusted Laura Ingraham slammed the leadership for its shabby treatment of leaders like Jordan and Meadows.
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In its first week, it received rave reviews (ours included), and per Netflix, the viewership numbers aren't too shabby.
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We're told the guest list includes names like Michael B. Jordan, E-40 and Derek Carr -- not too shabby!
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Not too shabby for an app that only launched its content platform, Discover, a little over two years ago.
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The 'Ndrangheta hid in shabby hillside villages, dressing like orange farmers and working out of bunkers beneath their homes.
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They live in a stark but beautiful house, currently getting the shabby-chic treatment, in the middle of nowhere.
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No, it is shabby entertainment run by a bunch of cowards and people looking to increase the bottom line.
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Looks like 2016 won't be too shabby for Willow, either: She was just named the new face of Chanel.
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As photographs, they question the line between shabby "low art" and what's considered to be a "well-crafted" photograph.
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After her separation, she moves with her children to a cold and somewhat shabby apartment to begin life anew.
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Still, he agrees to remodel and flip his mother's shabby beach house, and thus earn Tanya's hand in marriage.
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At the shabby club we chose on a whim, we gyrated with enthusiasm but couldn't totally comprehend the music.
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As part of the consolidation process, the shabby basement will be converted into a fancy auction and exhibition space.
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Yet those channels bear little resemblance to the dreary Soviet broadcasts with their stilted language and shabby production values.
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Facial hair has evolved from shabby to trendy, and the movement has created an opening for new beauty products.
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A shabby apartment building becomes a cabinet of wonders in Ex Machina's glittering "887" at the BAM Harvey Theater.
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Weld has a shabby-genteel bearing and a boarding-school sarcasm that comes across as both appealing and arrogant.
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Moonee zooms around a shabby motel near Disney World, looking for excitement that most adults would classify as trouble.
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It wasn't quite 2015 — the best year on record for household income growth — but it wasn't too shabby either.
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In fact, dude rushed for 2,208 yards and 26 touchdowns as a high school senior -- not too shabby, right?
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Our beloved old boozers, with their reheated burgers, shabby carpets, and grouchy regulars will be a thing of the past.
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Not only has it swapped its shabby 1970s quarters for a shiny new building, but deeper change is under way.
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If you prefer to travel solo, you can book the same route for $449, which is also not too shabby.
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" —rachelc230 "When we pulled up to the house in Destin, Florida, it looked a little shabby, but we weren't alarmed.
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Mr Trump has all of Nixon's shabby venality, vindictiveness and contempt for the press, but none of his predecessor's competence.
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Surveys suggest that students are more satisfied with the state of their campuses, and some were shabby before the investment.
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Her dad didn't look too shabby either, supporting his daughter in a sleek, all-black suit and Berluti "Playtime" sneakers.
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Mr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters.
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We've rounded up some versions for every style type, whether you're a modern minimalist or a shabby chic-loving Francophile.
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Not too shabby for a company that, as it acknowledged in its IPO filing, was originally known for nude selfies.
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Being able to fully enjoy one-third of Jedi Challenges isn't too shabby, especially given the fact that it's free.
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The neighbors from the flat below were standing outside on the pavement in the gray afternoon, shabby in their coats.
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The store resembled a small, shabby Walmart stocked with random leftovers from other countries, but no fresh meat or produce.
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I won't be too shabby, but how many penguin suits can you really change over the course of the evening?
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As the play opens, Jo is moving into a shabby flat with her mother, Helen (Rachel Botchan), in Manchester, England.
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It remains painfully relevant today, when children are being bombed in Syria or boarding shabby boats to escape by sea.
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One day, when complaining to his father about the shabby state of Panamanian politics, the elder man snapped at him.
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Not too shabby, and a significantly more exciting way to dive into a new language than cracking open a textbook.
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I dressed in shabby, ankle-length clothes and a veil, then sneaked into Chibok town with a group of locals.
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FYI -- James is now 3-5 all-time in the NBA Finals ... not exactly dominant, but not too shabby either.
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Me. A.K. Burns: Shabby but Thriving continues at the New Museum (235 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through April 23.
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This rise of artificial stupidity is the antithesis of, or rather the millions of shabby little cousins to, artificial intelligence.
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It's shabby and beat-up, the kind of thing you'd pluck from a bargain bin at a used-book store.
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The building was somewhat shabby, she thought, but she liked the apartment itself, which had high ceilings and hardwood floors.
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The compound was situated in a migrant ghetto, a shabby cluster of connection houses on the outskirts of the city.
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It had been clear and cold overnight, and a thin mist hovered over the shabby fields, like a breath exhaled.
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" Ferrell responded to the comment with a giggle and declared in an excited British accent, "Okay, that's not too shabby!
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Woe to the roughneck who rushes toward something shabby and comfy in the interests of time, budget or idiosyncratic taste.
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During a visit to St Petersburg in January 2018, CNN saw laborers living in shabby living quarters, building apartment blocks.
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The resting place for politicians and sculptors, Bogotá's Cementerio Central is a shabby, romantic and still-majestic place to visit.
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He makes this point, as if to put himself above the shabby, desperate masses crossing the Mediterranean on plastic rafts.
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Rows of impassive police officers stood by as the crowds surged through the streets of shabby, dust-covered buildings downtown.
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And we were actively discouraged from exploring what detail and characters surrounded us by the shabby and insulting minor characters.
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The weather was unbelievable, the locals were awesome and picking up my date in town via seaplane wasn't too shabby either.
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According to Celebrity Net Worth, Dr. Ruth is worth a whopping $3 million — not too shabby for a famous sex therapist.
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The reconsecration followed restoration works which have turned a once pleasantly shabby interior into a gleaming expanse of marble and parquet.
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Dotty is the marquee attraction, a once-beloved television star now reduced to headlining this shabby tour of a feeble play.
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They gleamed against the library's familiar collection of shabby older books, and I would wade into the feast and glut myself.
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Like the inside of Downing Street, it has the grand-shabby air of a posh hotel that has seen better days.
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IN A shabby club in the Israeli city of Netanya, a diminutive, rake-thin, 57-year-old comedian takes the stage.
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Up close, the car did have that shabby-concept feel, where everything seems like it's made of toothpicks and construction paper.
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First, he has to close his shabby tortilla factory, which hasn't been complying with U.S. safety standards and is bleeding money.
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A seven-year recession has been horrible for Greeks: in Athens, shabby residents rummaging through rubbish bins are an everyday sight.
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Not long before the civil war he was virtually broke, walking the streets of St Louis in shabby clothing selling firewood.
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Few people there were my age, and in my mind I ruled the shabby chic hallways like Eloise at the Plaza.
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To top it all off, two of these bad boys provide up to 1.1 million pounds of thrust—not too shabby.
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Brands that are slow to inject tech into the shopping experience — or that don't spruce up shabby storefronts — are bleeding customers.
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Another theme is that teaching is always the last resort or shabby alternative for another career dream these individuals once had.
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Ryan Leslie Ryan Leslie Not too shabby for a product Leslie built v1 of two years after working though Codeacademy's tutorials.
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Planet, until recently known as Planet Labs, occupies a shabby-chic building in the South of Market area of San Francisco.
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It looks photo-op fabulous, with its augustly shabby, nicotine-stained pressroom (by Douglas W. Schmidt) and costumes (by Ann Roth).
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The authority needs to recoup the fortune it will spend on white paint to keep the place from instantly looking shabby.
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And it's not too shabby: It generated $228 million in revenue this quarter, and a net income loss of $100 million.
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The restaurant was El Quijote, in the once-elegantly shabby Chelsea Hotel on West 1978rd Street near Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.
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He wrote Cleopatra "for the timbre, the shadings — everything about my voice, which is not too shabby, actually," Ms. Price said.
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"All the stuff we had that looked O.K. in a shabby apartment in Astoria looks terrible in here," Mr. Reefer said.
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Supporters of the plan say that the affected buildings are shabby prefabricated apartment blocks, meant as temporary shelter in Soviet times.
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Its disregard of safety ran the gamut and resulted in the dispatch of shabby airplanes in the hands of beleaguered pilots.
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The food ain't too shabby either ... Felicity's first day menu featured a chicken patty for lunch and pepper steak for dinner.
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Because the shabby treatment of female moviemakers isn't about quality or box office or seriousness or relevance: it's simply about women.
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It reminded her of the shabby world evoked by Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler," where he desperately sought one more victory.
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That pedigree (and the shabby quality of domestic Chinese cars in the past) catapulted the mark to great success in China.
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After the fabric is stitched together, workers use harsh chemicals and sanders to add that final shabby look to the fabric.
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Ren and his military comrades slept in shabby housing in subzero temperatures, living on pickled vegetables for months at a time.
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The halting progress is emblematic of the country's larger transportation problems — its potholed roads, dysfunctional subways, dilapidated bridges and shabby airports.
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Box contents typically add up to $26 or more, so getting awesome swag for more than half off doesn't sound too shabby.
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While Reinharts' scoop might not be the steamiest, the actress does confirm all my suspicions that kissing Cole Sprouse ain't too shabby.
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"The film opens in an unlikely spy den, a shabby studio in a Brooklyn tenement," the Times movie critic Manohla Dargis wrote.
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For phones that should cost around $22 (or maybe even less), the E216 Plus (left) and E26 Play don't look too shabby.
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Then came Mean Girls in 22013, which grossed $22 million worldwide, and then Lohan's not-too-shabby foray into music soon thereafter.
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But a visit by CNN to the company's offices ended at an unmarked, locked black door in a shabby, poorly-maintained corridor.
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The shabby banks will be transformed into a 25-mile promenade, divided into 11 sections with playgrounds, green spaces, and exercise machines.
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Saving $10 a month for the first six month of your HBO subscription on Hulu doesn't sound too shabby, don't you think?
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Revenue up 6193% year-over-year isn't shabby, but the company lost $2619 million in that time and $24 million in Q211470696.
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To try to delay the process until after the election may be politics as usual, but it is still a shabby move.
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We'll have more comprehensive thoughts when we get a pair to try, but for now, the Galaxy Buds don't look too shabby.
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Despite Palo Alto's shabby look, lack of mobile payments, and lack of face-recognition software, America still has many, many desirable qualities.
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Living in a shabby apartment in Brooklyn and working an underwhelming job, 29-year-old Louise Wilson finds that window rather alluring.
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All look directly at the camera, standing in front of overstuffed chairs or brocade curtains in what resembles a shabby hotel ballroom.
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For a chip that's already one of, if not the fastest consumer-level ARM-based processor currently available, that's not too shabby.
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The local airport is adequate, if a little shabby, for a few domestic flights a year, if you ever fly at all.
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If you go looking shabby, like you don't care, you maybe give off the vibe that you don't really care about them.
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On My Block is more about the journey than the destination, and when it comes to travel companions, it's not too shabby.
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For all but a few of us, faulty memory and shabby archives will, sooner rather than later, rub out our small lives.
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Last week brought an extraordinary demonstration of the dangers of operating a surveillance state — especially a shabby one, as China's apparently is.
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Which is not to say that Nicole and Charlie are confined to the shabby, somber stagecraft that so often passes for realism.
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Since then, she has been living in a shabby state-run camp, her future uncertain, her present reduced to the bare necessities.
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Verb Cafe was a shabby, cash-only space in Williamsburg that had no Wi-Fi but served good coffee for 15 years.
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In shabby three-star resorts and half-empty Chinese trading offices, illicit deals are discussed freely, especially the illegal trade in ivory.
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Sam lives in a shabby-chic home in the Valley, ornamented with an eclectic collection of trinkets and art made by friends.
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The clothes are mostly shabby, the porn shoots are low-budget, the bars are raucous only when a glam band rolls through.
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That requirement dates to the early 1970s, when many painters and sculptors began relocating to commercial structures in the then-shabby neighborhood.
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It was a view shared by friends sitting around a table outside a kiosk selling lottery tickets in the shabby town center.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Shabby but Thriving by A.K. Burns at the New Museum I could use an illusion.
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At a large postwar building on 90th Street, a two-bedroom apartment and the building's hallways struck Ms. Brent Magzis as shabby.
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The big north and south areas were toughest to fill, but escaping with just a couple "dabs of glue" isn't too shabby.
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Wearing a lush, black cashmere hoodie, black knit pants and black sneakers, he carries a sort of shabby-chic, tech-billionaire style.
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International options are not too shabby, either, with several free days at the Alpine hot spots Verbier, Val d'Isère and St. Anton.
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So they stuck to nearby neighborhoods, seeking a small, prewar building and a sunny apartment, preferably shabby enough to beg for renovation.
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The entrance was shabby; the elevators were slow and small and confusing; locals walked around in the freezing weather wearing short sleeves.
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And nowhere is that shabby dynamic—crony capitalism dressed up as consumer protection—more pronounced than in the field of occupational licensing.
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Not too shabby, but slightly LESS than the $2760.35k each Houston Astros player got last year for winning the 2017 World Series.
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Not too shabby, although CNNMoney estimates that the winner will actually walk away with a measly $348 million after taxes (thanks, Obama).
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That game alone is expected to bring in $2 billion in revenue in 2018 and reports 200 million registered players — not too shabby.
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A few days later the company sent an inspector, who deducted $2200,25.5 for a faulty air-conditioning unit and a shabby paint job.
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It means the Model Y feels close to production-ready, and not like a shabby prototype that was shoved onstage to generate preorders.
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Beyond the shabby upkeep of so-called haunted sites are the mind games they can play on people who already believe in ghosts.
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One More Doctor The patient met Dr. Maksim Shapiro in a shabby conference room deep in the heart of NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Last year, Rome was also home to the "Austerity Tree," which was dubbed the "ugliest in the world" due to its shabby appearance.
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One of these and an Echo Spot will set you back $150 — not too shabby for an on-the-fly home security system.
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Jordan's new spot ain't too shabby ... a 4,600 square foot home with 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms in a private guard-gated community.
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"I went pheasant hunting one day (and) saw people in shabby clothes working outside with guards watching them closely, holding clubs," he says.
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While Dollar Tree and Dollar General are sprucing up their shops and adding fresh produce options to lure customers, Family Dollar remains shabby.
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"Six out of ten…not too shabby," Fit captioned a group shot posing alongside Wilson, Steinfeld, Shelley Regner, Alexis Knapp and Ester Dean.
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That's not too shabby — but given that the game began with nearly 800,000 contestants, it's not exactly a guarantor of future high payouts.
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The British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) also said it would seek compensation on behalf of its members for the "shabby" treatment of staff.
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Not too shabby for a $180 robot toy that admittedly launched with somewhat limited functionality (with the promise to add more in time).
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In most respects, the venue resembles your typical cozy/shabby coffee joint: freelancers sit on mismatched furniture, working on laptops and eating food.
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She's the face of Chanel, which isn't too shabby, and has released hit singles that you had stuck in your head for months.
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It's hard to compete with a picture from space, but on-the-ground images from marches across the country aren't too shabby, either.
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Lenovo's Moto 360 also isn't too shabby, but there's more that can be done to make Android Wear work better on the wrist.
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Not to mention, IT peeps make the most bank — we're talking about six figures here — so it's not an all too shabby profession.
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Of course, the OTHER Brandon Marshall ain't too shabby -- a 6-time Pro Bowl wide receiver who signed with Seattle during the offseason.
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On a bench in their grungy, violent Naples neighborhood, Elena and Lila lounge, bodies entwined, wearing shabby dresses, reading in unison, in Italian.
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But critics of the program argue that the city is squandering a valuable chance to improve shabby housing and hold onto affordable units.
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One answer can be found in a large, shabby Queen Anne house owned by the BISON Foundation in the Riverside neighborhood of Wichita.
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The few staff that remain try to be helpful, and they are clearly embarrassed by the shabby state of their once respectable establishment.
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What's with those carelessly slung items on the floor and sofa — a shabby coat, a battered knapsack, an open bag of potato chips?
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For her directorial debut, "Home Again," Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Nancy Meyers's daughter, has made a shabby copy of a Nancy Meyers romantic comedy.
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After rehearsing the scene, Mr. Friend emerged from the house with a frilly white-and-green flowered apron tied around his shabby tweeds.
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With the feature off, however, I was able to get more than two days life on a single charge, which isn't too shabby.
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Five weeks of unrest over inequality and shabby social services have left at least 26 dead and more than 13,500 injured, prosecutors said.
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It incorporates families who live in expensive prewar apartment buildings, in shabby tenements and in a number of public housing complexes scattered throughout.
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It's 1969, and a South Brooklyn neighborhood is rocked by an unexpected flare of violence: a shabby deacon shoots a local drug dealer.
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It is a cavernous room outfitted with lamps, a collection of shabby and ornate furniture, a patchwork of rugs and an old car.
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You might also consider giving your best donatables to organizations that provide outfits specifically for cases where shabby clothes can be a liability.
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On one side of the city's main thoroughfare, the Rixos President Hotel bustles with shabby journalists, dapper diplomats and wealthy patrons in mink coats.
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"Refusing to pay is a shabby way to treat insurers, which entered the [Obamacare] exchanges in reliance on the federal government's promises," Bagley wrote.
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AT AN outdoor organic market in Berlin trendy students, affluent young professionals and shabby grey-haired academic types queue up for pricey local potatoes.
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It is indeed shabby compared with Nanshan, a wealthy high-tech neighbourhood nearby with an average income per person of over $220,2100 a year.
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At its peak, the "Same Drugs" video attracted more than 33,000 eyeballs — not too shabby for a video premiered will very little advance notice.
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In his shabby apartment in Santa Monica, California, where he turned up living as Charlie Gasko behind thick black curtains, he had 193 books.
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In the last few years, signs in Arabic have covered over the shabby chic European-style buildings of Beyoğlu, where her studio is located.
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Fortunately, Suicide Squad appears to be tracking at a $140 million box office opening — a really good number for such a critically shabby film.
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The stunning photo featured above, enhanced by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko, was taken from this raw image:Image: NASANot too shabby for a Jovian makeover.
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"Kinda bored today and wanted to see if I could still do a leap… It's not perfect but not too shabby either," she wrote.
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Yet his appointment, and Mr Spicer's shabby treatment and exit, may stand for more than the tragic cheapening of the presidency under Mr Trump.
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To see how well that works, compare the shabby state-run schools and hospitals of rural counties with their smart counterparts in wealthy cities.
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They are far and away the most successful of the world's remaining communist states, easily eclipsing shabby Cuba, tiny Laos and militant North Korea.
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That's not too shabby as a résumé for an American politician, but it offers razor-thin credentials to oversee the country's federal intelligence agencies.
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"I love this customer very much," Ewing says over coffee in a visitor's area that has a shabby-chic feel appropriate to the brand.
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Before the reforms, businesses like Carballo's beauty parlor existed but were illegal, so they did not market themselves and hid in shabby living rooms.
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At the end of the six weeks I couldn't believe I had to go back to the shabby life I had been living before.
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There is no hint of shabby desperation in these effects, of the sense of a spook house jerry-built over a well-worn drama.
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The San Antonio Spurs are busy setting franchise records with their play at home, but their record on the road isn't too shabby, either.
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Seeing as his numbers weren't all that shabby last season, there's reason to believe that Mixon could emerge as a top rusher this season.
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The shabby, no-light, duplex apartment that is home to the "The Humans," this year's Tony winner for best new play, is moving uptown.
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At first, Adaptive's creative process seems like every screenwriter's nightmare: Executives sit in meetings at the company's shabby-chic headquarters in Culver City, Calif.
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The movie would go on to make about $90 million in worldwide box office — not too shabby for a film made for $10 million.
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While Patrick Kane told the team's website that the "sky's the limit" for Panarin, the former hasn't been too shabby in his own right.
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The Washington Post on Friday lambasted the Trump administration's "shabby hostility" toward science, calling the president and his Cabinet a "threat" to endangered species.
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It can fly up to 495 miles per hour, with a cruising altitude of 45,000 feet — not too shabby for a small business jet.
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The beds are undoubtedly the highlight of this office (did I mention employees are encouraged to nap?), but the penthouse isn't too shabby either.
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That's not too shabby as a résumé for an American politician, but it offered razor-thin credentials to oversee the country's federal intelligence agencies.
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Ms. Godzik felt her resolve to stay at her current place — also shabby and soon to be in the boondocks of Brooklyn — melt away.
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We are taken past such recognizable sights as the Jardin du Luxembourg but also asked to linger in shabby playgrounds and unfamiliar side streets.
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It also earned the Blue Team a place in the final round of the 2004 competition, despite a shabby showing in the qualifying round.
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Once, shabby stores and disgruntled workers might have been a bad look for a department store; now they are, at most, a secondary problem.
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He had just been at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, he said, and AstroTurf was definitely the hallmark of a shabby booth.
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Mind you, it's a particular aesthetic, one that's most likely to appeal to people who are after an industrial, shabby chic or bohemian look.
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Sintua's father Ramiro, who lives with her in a shabby rented flat in town, said the phenomenon appeared to have snowballed in recent years.
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Not too shabby, but, per usual, the statement in the earnings report was bland: "We had a good start to 13," Zuckerberg's statement read.
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In my humiliation, I received the faith a second time, as a warm coat given to a shabby beggar on a cold winter's day.
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On the New York-bound side, commuters troop through turnstiles and up a dark, narrow staircase — no escalator or elevator — to a shabby platform.
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According to Indeed, the average salary for a full stack developer is $110,588 per annum, which is not too shabby for a normal human person.
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Woods has won 79 times on the PGA Tour, second only to Sam Snead's 82 but well clear of Mickelson's none-too-shabby 42 victories.
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The apparently casual collision of the ordinary and the fantastic is done in a way that makes 'magical realism' seem shabby and melodramatic by comparison.
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Almost a quarter of people living in the shabby bungalows of Flaxmere, a suburb in Hawkes Bay, are said to be linked to Black Power.
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He argued that the art of political horse-trading, far from being shabby, lets people of different beliefs live together in a peaceful, thriving society.
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"SPELACCHIO", the frail and shabby Christmas Tree of the Eternal City recently set in Piazza Venezia, has sadly died just after a couple of weeks.
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It was a shabby, dirty country; when my mum hung out the washing in Peterborough, the soot from the brick chimneys made it dirty again.
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David Zinn won a Tony for his design of "The Humans" set, which replicated a shabby two-story apartment in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan.
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Comey learned the news on TV during a trip to LA, and there's near-universal outrage among agents over what they see as shabby treatment.
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Several times a week for months, Hamilton and Gunn sat a few feet from each other in a bright, shabby courtroom, at 20153 Centre Street.
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"Their abilities to demonstrate the tensions, the torments and the shabby conceits of the miserable criminals give disturbing dimensions to their roles," Mr. Crowther wrote.
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When, toward the end, a switch is thrown to reveal just how tawdry and shabby the seemingly golden Studio really is, it's hardly a shock.
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A darkly funny jaunt through the misadventures of two shabby London actors as they navigate dreadful weather, pervy uncles, and their drug and alcohol abuse.
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Facing skepticism from funders who feared they'd die at sea, Edwards took out a loan on her own house and refurbished a shabby old boat.
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They are spending what promises to be one very fraught summer together in their shabby family vacation home, by the docks, where the foghorns wail.
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The company's first device managed $5 million in pre-sales and has since shipped 40,000 units — not too shabby for a first-gen startup project.
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The balmy weather and brilliant coastal beaches added their own charms, and the shabby baubles and ticky-tacky architecture of modern industrial tourism were born.
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That upsetting news arrives when the authorities burst into their shabby apartment, slap handcuffs on Arcay, then immediately subject her and Pierre to DNA tests.
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It's a deal that bears all the shabby hallmarks of Donald J. Trump and any prudent corporation should do the right thing and walk away.
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Taken one shabby scam or crude graft at a time, Trump is just a dope who tells the same dumb stories over and over again.
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" He said Yovanovitch had been "a model diplomat and deserves better than the shabby treatment she received from the president and the Secretary of State.
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I'd never loved it, being as it was first too shabby, then too grand for the way we lived (or should have lived, at least).
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They assumed a newer building would be too pricey; all the shabby apartments with less-than-ideal layouts within their budget seemed to confirm it.
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She rejects the shabby bargain Reynolds offers her, which demands the complete suppression of her will in exchange for his occasional recognition of her existence.
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But the old house ain't too shabby ... 3 fireplaces, a wine cellar, media room, hot tub, infinity pool and a WATERFALL in the front entry way!
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" Zevi wrote that Rossi's Casa Del Portuale's "shabby, degraded coastal context […] is animated by a pioneering, spectacular, subversive object, which seems to claim an environmental redemption.
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"Not too shabby!" said a spirited Moreno about the dress's second life, before spotting Lin-Manuel Miranda emerging from the wings with Blunt, his co-presenter.
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CARDIFF, Wales — Lin-Manuel Miranda sat patiently in a shabby, capacious hot-air balloon, as a technician checked the lighting on a stuffed bird poised overhead.
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Artem Anisimov (team-leading 33 goals) hasn't been too shabby in his own right, as his goal in Chicago's 23-24 setback versus Nashville on Oct.
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EVERY Monday morning, a dozen evangelical Christians gather in a shabby café-cum-church in Lanark, in Scotland's central belt, and pray for the country's politicians.
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Sure, the price is steep for a somewhat shabby room with no air conditioning, but that mattress felt pretty great after a long day of exploring.
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" via GIPHY "I was DJing a wedding in a shabby little reception hall out in the middle of the sticks for a redneck bride and groom.
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In total, Accel's London team has generated $15 billion in exit market value in 2015 and taken a cut of this big cake — not too shabby.
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As my roommate and I settled into our seats, laden with bags and books and feeling a little shabby, we watched the opera women go by.
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The Club Europe seats certainly weren't shabby — they were cushioned, made from leather, and with an adjustable headrest — but were narrower than the Club World seats.
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The settlement of Prosperity is a small-scale frontier fort that combines elements of Scandinavian Modern architecture, a shabby-chic hunting lodge, and an organic farm.
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It was already gonna be insane with performances by Lady Gaga on Saturday and Kendrick Lamar on Sunday, but the new acts ain't too shabby either.
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Tímea Kovács, a criminal-defense lawyer in Szeged, picked me up at the town's train station and drove us to a shabby-chic Austro-Hungarian café.
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Trailed by a herd of male admirers, she is staying with her mother, a snuff-sniffing princess beleaguered by debts, in the shabby cottage next door.
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In poorer areas, people were still crowded outside and in some cases, eight people slept in a shabby tenement room, according to The New York Times.
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Stories abound of scrimping by prison operators, with bad food and shabby health care for inmates, low pay and inadequate training for guards and hiring shortages.
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Federer, 37, is not too shabby on the dirt either, as he showed by reaching the semifinals despite not playing at Roland Garros in four years.
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Based at a shabby tent by the Nile in Cairo, it sells tickets for $1.80 to $3.50, and draws mostly school groups and working-class families.
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White birch tree branches make a shabby-chic Christmas tree alternative, and you can find bare wall hangings at Target and Amazon starting at $8 each.
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This was Democratic leaders' first huddle with Mr. Trump since December, a testament to both sides' desire to address the shabby state of America's public works.
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Laxton argues that Atget's photographs deployed the idea of play by recontextualizing ordinary, shabby, often discarded objects to imbue them with a sense of the uncanny.
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His vintage car has a cassette deck in the dashboard, and he lives in a shabby apartment amid stacks of vinyl records and old concert posters.
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She lived in an apartment of cozy clutter, where objects were both intellectual but chic, shabby but classy, and scattered among framed photos of her son.
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But that alone is not sufficient justification for this shabby deal, which will only confirm the suspicion that all the Conservatives truly care about is power.
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At the time of the "Funkaesthetics" exhibition he was living in a shabby single-room-occupancy hotel in Chicago, his eyesight almost gone, his kidneys failing.
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The Cain and Abel thread of the show is set aside as "Off Brand," as the episode is titled, swivels to guns, drugs and shabby manners.
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In October, North Korea said it would rebuild the long-abandoned town on its own after demolishing "shabby" hotels and other South Korean-built facilities there.
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Every person we meet has a story that forces us to refocus and rethink first impressions, to see the layers beneath the flashy or shabby suits.
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No surprise that while in June a not too shabby 10% of voters said they trusted Kamala most on healthcare, now only 85033% say the same.
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At the time of the "Funkaesthetics" exhibition he was living in a shabby single-room-occupancy hotel in Chicago, his eyesight almost gone, his kidneys failing.
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We are in the tidy if shabby kitchen of Tony and Sally-Mae Carter, a young laborer and a newly minted beautician expecting their first child.
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This was a man whose own child died while he was leader of the opposition—who'd spent many nights in shabby hospital waiting rooms nursing that boy.
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He was glad, too, after all the shabby treatment of the troops, that something heartening had come out of Vietnam and that it was linked to him.
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The shabby lane lined with shops selling jewelry, antiques, knickknacks, artworks and, especially, rugs has been a magnet for generations of foreign visitors looking for Afghan exotica.
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Vince leaves a music video shoot and gets in an incongruously shabby old cab, which is almost always a sign some weird shit is going to happen.
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Many are locals who have the means to move to nicer homes, tired of the shabby six-floor walk-ups that still dominate many old city-centres.
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Some people think that the White Sox brass revoking Drake LaRoche's all-access locker room pass is directly connected to his father's shabby production last year. Maybe.
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I take pictures of some shoes I like (my work flats are getting quite shabby) but conclude this would be a poor time to make $100+ decisions.
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In recent years judges have been handing out ever more "community work service", in which offenders perform unpaid jobs like sprucing up shabby buildings or cleaning parks.
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For every pious expression of support for international justice or condemnation of capital punishment, there was a shabby energy deal or quiet support for a useful dictator.
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Since 2007, more than 750 companies have competed (and now form our alumni community), collectively raised $8 billion in funding and generated 102 exits. Not. Too. Shabby.
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Although he didn't quite match his Japanese success, Stateside he was either praised as a "modern day Brian Wilson" or the "Japanese Beck," which isn't too shabby.
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Every installment of the show takes place in the same eerie motel room—two full beds, shabby carpeting—and was shot in a maximum of three days.
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But in a shabby sea-front hotel in Didim, off whose coast 25 migrants drowned on Sunday when their boat capsized, few had heard of the deal.
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MULTI-COLOURED minibuses, shabby motorbike-taxis, white four-wheel-drives and battered jeeps stream through the centre of Freetown, overtaking on both sides, hooting as they go.
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The government ultimately spent more than $100 billion on hundreds of sprawling housing developments, but the program was plagued by corruption, poor planning, and shabby construction methods.
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Why it's a BFD: This combination would bring together America's largest wireless company with its second-largest broadband provider (and Verizon isn't too shabby on broadband either).
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I happen to live two houses down in Berlin from where Fromm started to make condoms, in a traditionally shabby room in the courtyard of his house.
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The Google Home Max is still the bass king and has the loudest sound, but the Nest Hub Max's sound quality isn't that shabby a small apartment.
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Dinners in Argentina are eaten late, so assuage your hunger with a stop at a shabby white food truck with "jamón crudo" inelegantly scrawled along the side.
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Born in 1802 to shabby genteel parents, Landon was an ascending star in literary London, a tantalizing blend of Romantic feeling and proto-Victorian self-promoting prowess.
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The canvas, painted by the fictional artist Ervin Kálmán and worth a few million, is small, shabby and "frankly, ugly," Matt tells us in the novel's opening.
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Older Americans, Brooklyn fashionistas and families willing to pay top dollar come to stay in one of the opulent, albeit shabby, old homes that line Havana's boulevards.
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They had been hired by developers to extort slum dwellers into consenting to their houses being razed, in exchange for shabby tower blocks under a government program.
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The fence suggested that the space it enclosed was potentially a special one, but the yard belonging to those cottages was shabby and neglected, unworthy of protection.
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Mr. Dafoe plays Bobby, the manager of a shabby motel where children like Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) run free and discover the joys and hardships of the world.
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Thus we watch the once-resplendent Merz household become increasingly shabby and bare, as what once felt like a familial fortress is transformed into a defenseless sanctuary.
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Anything that isn't wonderful seems less interesting than whatever I'm writing, and anything that's wonderful makes whatever I'm writing seem hopelessly shabby by comparison, triggering impostor syndrome.
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The Guest House is a calm, unpretentious space: a large Victorian home with six beds in five bedrooms, vaulted ceilings, slightly shabby furniture and warm, Oriental rugs.
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There Rumi inherited his father's mantle, presided over a shabby but magnetic seminary, and became one of the most beloved and discussed religious figures in the realm.
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Carrying only a backpack filled with shabby clothes, Ms. Taylor asked her father to mail her something she could wear to her first job in The Hague.
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"A redecorating programme was in place, but many cells were shabby, communal areas were sometimes grubby and the showers were generally in poor condition," the report stated.
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"We're feeling deeply hurt," said Wiryawan, speaking at his desk at the slightly shabby, red-tiled tax building, with rows of flowers carrying condolence messages lined up outside.
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In one of the presidential debates against Hillary Clinton, Trump contrasted the gleaming airports of Qatar and Dubai with more shabby U.S. facilities such as LaGuardia and Newark.
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The government wants to force unsound and shabby jeepneys off the streets in favor of bigger, cleaner, safer and more modern replacements, some electric, others using cleaner fuel.
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Fast-rising upstart Secret was destroyed by unchecked harassment and a shabby redesign, leading it to shut down and give its remaining funding back to investors in 2015.
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The once-elegantly shabby Chelsea Hotel has been called different things over the years: A hangout (writers like Mark Twain, Tom Wolfe and Jack Kerouac called it home).
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Allen also made hundreds of millions of dollars redeveloping South Lake Union, a shabby area of downtown Seattle that became a gleaming technology Mecca and site of Amazon.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a shabby encampment on the outskirts of Rome, Selveta Nemeti and her two children have been sleeping outside next to their dismantled trailer.
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It's not too shabby for a company that CEO Richard White founded in 1994 from his basement in Sydney's suburban Newtown, with several colleagues and a credit card.
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In contrast to his reputation as a hardnosed dealmaker, and to the shabby treatment of democratic allies like Australia and Germany, Trump has offered reassurance to Arab authoritarians.
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"Toast" takes place on a Sunday, in the shabby canteen (James Turner designed the evocatively decrepit set) where the men assemble for smokes and tea on their breaks.
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"A good idea is a good idea, forever," said its shabby-suited protagonist—but 18 years later, a fast-changing culture has shown that wisdom to be false.
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Tom Scutt's evocation of the shabby boardinghouse in which Hester now lives has see-through walls, so we're always aware of the impinging lives of the other residents.
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"That's not too shabby for a novice national security team and a president who has almost no experience in foreign policy, kind of managing all that," Carafano said.
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Their shabby glamour is so appealing that she can overlook the fact that they reek from Dumpster diving and drive a sinister school bus that's been painted black.
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The closing of the inelegant station, its shabby convenience store invariably full of drivers dancing in place while waiting in line for the restroom, has a familiar feeling.
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But Panettiere's opponent, Eva Longoria, wasn't too shabby either, with a performance of "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj that will remind most viewers of their complete absence of rhythm.
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Blake acknowledges the word "temporary" often brings a shabby setup to mind but is certain that fans and players will find everything about the Hard Rock first class.
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No word on if Kaden is leaning towards FAU ... but his father, Tee, is currently the offensive coordinator at USC ... which ain't too shabby of a program either.
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Instead, he's saddled with shabby accommodations and a lippy, tattooed driver, Lil (Ariel Winter of "Modern Family"), for a grass-roots gathering scraped together by some local fanboys.
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Despite her good fortune she harbors some Madame Bovary tendencies, aching for a life of pampered thrills and finding her own existence — a spacious apartment, luxury vacations — shabby.
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He lived in a shabby housing block in a field of identical housing blocks, drove a rattletrap Niva and told endless stories about his days as a paratrooper.
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But USDA undersecretary for research, education and economics — a little-known but crucial post that oversees a budget that approaches $3 billion — is not a shabby consolation prize.
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The poor painter found a shabby couch in a corner, collapsed on it, and for the first time in a long while fell asleep on a soft surface.
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Daniel soon becomes her protector, a creative Mr. Fix-It who makes her crumbling apartment a little less shabby, and a sort of surrogate father to her children.
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In the early days the look veered a little closer to "shabby-chic" or "French country," both of which have fallen out of favor over the last decade.
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Jack and Jill, sitting at the same shabby, chic cantina where they came up with the Internet of Wings in the first place, decided to pursue this new direction.
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While her Sex and the City alter ego Carrie Bradshaw had a dream closet, Sarah Jessica Parker's isn't too shabby either — and someday, her children will fit it all.
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Nobody wants to be a snob or a "hater" but, from punchline to NBC star to president, what is our shabby Mussolini but poptimism's logical extreme gone aggressively sour?
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Such a valuation isn't too shabby for a company that started about two years ago with its founders pooling private savings of 150,000 yuan ($21,800) to kick things off.
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You can't unthinkingly reach for the bright yellow Snapchat icon anymore, and scrolling Instagram in black-and-white is like looking at a hundred shabby attempts at being artsy.
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Blue tarps and shabby tents with people sleeping in them line our route in the Downtown Eastside, where the wail of an ambulance siren is always around the corner.
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From her grey solitary life of cats and bird-feeding and slopping in shabby clothes to the shops she took herself back to her glory days of international importance.
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"And I remember going with her to Roberts' Oyster Bar," a famous wood-paneled restaurant that opened in 1876, but is today reduced to a shabby, shopfront shellfish stall.
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That park was the only one we knew, and if it was shabby, its toy horses and pretend cars worn and weary, it still held the promise of exhilaration.
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There's even a kind of reverse bragging involved: just how old, how shabby, how gruesomely it can shed parts and systems and still get you from place to place.
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The best clinician I ever knew was draped in a grayish shabby thing spilling over with scraps of paper, vaguely redolent of his usual weekday lunch of pea soup.
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This counterintuitive, even paradoxical dynamic suggests a tantalizing hypothesis: America's shabby, unpopular safety net is at least partly responsible for capitalism's flagging fortunes in the Land of the Free.
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But the rest of the division isn't too shabby, either, and is all but guaranteed to produce both of the West's wild-card spots for the third straight year.
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SNOWZILLA COSTS NOT TOO SHABBY: Sure, $2628 to $28503 billion isn't chump change, but those estimates from Moody's Analytics of the toll of last weekend's storm are relatively low.
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In the '90s, chain convenience stores began their ascent, and service stations started selling candy and ice creams in brighter, more antiseptic spaces than the lovably shabby milk bar.
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At the 95th Street Station, where a $280 million terminal replaced a shabby building with no doors to keep out the cold, a community radio station will broadcast live.
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This would not be in the least surprising both because Mr. Trump lies continually and because there is no act of shabby vindictiveness to which he will not stoop.
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Shabby public-domain versions circulated on film and video for years until a 22012 rescue job by German preservationists restored the work to what seemed its fullest possible form.
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Beckham returned to the Giants' lineup to face the Detroit Lions on Monday night, but he could not make up for another shabby performance by his team's offensive line.
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Wedding and engagement shoots, camera-toting tourists, models needing head shots — this stretch under the Manhattan Bridge has become the outdoor runway for the chic and the shabby alike.
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In 12 tiny black-and-white photographs made between 1975 and 1980, Woodman merges her models into the shabby décor of interiors in Rhode Island, New York and Rome.
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Remember the shabby, half-underground apartment where the Kim family lives, with its high risk of electrocution and projectile stream of black sludge from the toilet after it floods?
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In a shabby apartment complex, they discovered Anton Ferdiantono, a father of four, holding the detonator for a bomb that had killed his wife and one of their daughters.
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He hunches, as if still steeling himself against the cold, and the wind bangs open and shut the window that brings dim, blue light into the small, shabby room.
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But Mr. Cohen chose a shabby, low-slung building 75 miles northwest of New York City, with an antiquated weight room, an uneven tennis court and no swimming pool.
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Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, accused the Post of engaging in "shoddy and shabby" journalism, calling their reporting a "blatant effort at character assassination" — comments he later apologized for.
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But Tristan wasn't doing too shabby in the solitaire department himself, wearing his 2016 Cavaliers championship ring that was bestowed upon him Tuesday night, and is completely covered in diamonds.
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And so begins his journey from a shabby, unadorned flat in Nepal, where he's been living in exile, to the crowded Indian marketplace where his bloody mission will be completed.
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The battery isn't too shabby either, with HP promising that it should last as long as 14 hours on a single charge, although you're only getting a Full HD display.
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But, don't feel too bad, RG3's making $1,000,000 this season for being the backup -- not too shabby for a guy who hasn't taken 1 regular season snap since 2016.
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Vapers, who smoke electronic cigarettes that may contain nicotine but never tobacco, can pick up supplies in locations from shabby streetside vendors to slick dispensaries with assistants in lab coats.
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Instead, the topics that irk Sarawakians include shabby road and power networks, land-grabbing loggers and the royalties which Petronas, the state oil firm, pays for access to its wells.
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Federal raids on anatomical donation companies in several states led to criminal indictments this year after more than a thousand decaying body parts were discovered in a shabby Detroit warehouse.
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The feature debut of the writer and director Bi Gan, "Kaili Blues" finds Chen (Chen Yongzhong), a physician, working at a shabby medical clinic in Kaili, a city in China.
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Frye, Korver, and Williams have combined for approximately 48 minutes and 21 points per game in the playoffs; for a defending champion in win-now mode, that's not too shabby.
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At ground level so poor to me, so messy, so full of huts and gutters and bare front yards and straggly hibiscus hedges and shabby backyards: views from the roadside.
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A former yeshiva student from Brooklyn who did not even smoke marijuana, he spent his weekends helping his parents operate the shabby, money-losing El Monaco Motel in nearby Bethel.
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Photos from the time show a blank desert coastline with a cluster of shabby-looking buildings on its edge, the remnants of Qatar's days as a remote pearl-diving outpost.
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The copper/black and copper/white combo looks nice, and 6.5 hours of playtime (plus an additional 26.5 hours provided by the portable charging case) doesn't sound too shabby, either.
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Playing a shabby acting coach in his first ongoing TV role since the 1970s, the "Wall Street" star confronts the realities of growing older, onscreen and in his own life.
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The place has an immediate shabby charm — waiters dressed in green uniforms with gold belts navigate the cavernous, dimly lit room full of tables packed with people having animated discussions.
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The characters' travails play out in a shabby-chic apartment, a glass-walled boardroom, or a South L.A. mansion—environments that suggest excellence rather than a struggle to get by.
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A variation on the shabby chic phenomenon of the 1990s, the look was prominently featured by Chip and Joanna Gaines on the HGTV show, "Fixer Upper," which ended last year.
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NBC's "The Office" may have been a big hit, but Cramer sees offices today undergoing a style reformation, ditching their shabby cubicles for new-age moving walls and standing desks.
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"When you look at slums, you think they are shabby and dirty, and that also becomes a reflection of the people who live there," Reddy told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Alexandra now has five ("Not too shabby," her mother said) and sometimes borrows her mother's two, or swaps with her to mix up the collection of colors on her wrist.
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Things start to turn around — at least in Dud's eyes — when he ends up in front of a shabby fraternal lodge that introduces him to a friendly group of oddballs.
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After graduating, sisters Callie (Maia Mitchell) and Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) move into a shabby communal home in downtown Los Angeles where dinners bring the residents together and rats roam free.
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On a postcard of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, Mr. Uematsu's absurd doodle brings out all the shabby promiscuity of modern technology and its endless train of secondhand pilgrimages.
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Instead of seeing my clothes as shabby or out of fashion, which they probably are, I'm thankful that they keep me warm and allow me to do the things I love.
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Guam is a sad place, let us tell you; the worst of US society — malls, highways, fast food restaurants, and shabby suburbs — sprawling across what was once a beautiful tropical island.
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For the average Cuban, access to Western goods is almost nonexistent, as my kids saw when I took them to a shabby "department store" that accepted only pesos, the local currency.
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It wasn't a Napster-like situation: According to a 2004 press release announcing the launch of Billboard's Hot Ringtones chart, ringtones were a not-too-shabby $300 million a year industry.
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Last year 133 people died violently in Santa Cruz, a deceptively tranquil district at Rio's western tip, where broccoli and books are sold side by side in a shabby central market.
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Chris pins these notes over the bed in their shabby rental adobe house as she and Sylvere make vigorous love, which they had not done for months before arriving in Marfa.
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Indeed, with his shabby rented room and his boring, repetitive job, Soares is as ordinary as can be—the kind of person an aesthete would recoil from, or simply not notice.
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Kim called the South-built Mt Kumgang resort facilities, now more than a decade old, "shabby" and "capitalist," and ordered a modern redevelopment of the tourist spot, KCNA reported in October.
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In her thesis on the history of wicker, Emily Morris explains that Europeans recreated the style of wicker rattan by using willow, which lent itself to the shabby-chic, country look.
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In the latest sign of strained ties on the peninsula, the North Korea leader Kim ordered the removal of "shabby", "capitalist" facilities the South built in the North's Mount Kumgang resort.
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At its CES press conference in Las Vegas, we got to take a look at the 11-inch laptop and we have to say it's not too shabby of a machine.
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Wearing a Shabby Apple skirt, Forever 21 crop top, ShoeMint heels and jewelry purchased for her wedding from a Mall of America kiosk Brian Nichols/People Who's your favorite Disney princess?
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In his episode of "The Characters," his overly controlling "über-John" character is trying to host a perfect "shabby-chic" wedding rehearsal dinner, but can't help making it all about himself.
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Notably, Compass to date has focused on the high end of the real estate market, rather than the rough-end-ready low end of shabby fixer-uppers and less expensive neighborhoods.
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Presumably, that means that with a bribe to the right people, licenses can be obtained, shabby construction overlooked, and city ordinances ignored, with not much capital trickling down to ordinary citizens.
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NBC's "The Office" may have been a big hit, but Jim Cramer sees offices today undergoing a style reformation, ditching their shabby cubicles for new-age moving walls and standing desks.
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In Kate Racculia's "Bellweather Rhapsody," two mysterious killings set 15 years apart at the same grand yet shabby hotel anchor the book, which swells with dramatic plot points and back stories.
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CreditCreditGabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times What is the value of a worn door from a shabby New York hotel, spray-painted with an X and thrown out during renovation?
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For the rest of his life, Akutagawa, who was farmed out to live with an uncle's family in a shabby industrial ward in Tokyo, feared he would inherit his mother's madness.
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Venezuela then took the initiative with a spell of sustained pressure but Argentina showed a resilience and sense of maturity that was lacking in their shabby displays in the group stage.
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The area is now home to overflow parking for car dealerships, an abandoned grain elevator and docks lined with small, slightly shabby cruise boats where high school prom parties are held.
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He underscored some conspicuous first-term accomplishments, like his successful backing of a referendum to bring casino gambling to Atlantic City, at the time a shabby resort community, to revitalize it.
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Despite a solid thumping, Mr. Cox said the issues that Mr. Molinaro tried against Mr. Cuomo — corruption in Albany, the shabby city subways, cutting property taxes statewide — would eventually bear fruit.
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And many were devastated to learn that, soon after we left, Amal's mother brought her back to the shabby refugee camp they call home, where she died a few days later.
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After their close call with incest, she flees the shabby motel where the GLOW girls are staying and finds comfort in the arms of her pizza-boy paramour, Billy (Casey Johnson).
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For one, Trump's shabby treatment of his AG threatens to erode his already weak basis of support, especially among conservatives, something a president with historically-low approval ratings should consider carefully.
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Much is made of the house's poor, cramped furnishings and its shabby location by Mary Tyrone (Jessica Lange), who longs for a real home, if only she knew what that was.
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If you go, raise a glass of decent whiskey to another local icon: the Luna Lounge, the shabby and wonderful bar, formerly at this location, that doesn't live here anymore. ♦
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Despite the comedy, the Dublin slum-dwellers who populate his plays are fully realized characters, not shabby cartoons, and he had a cocked ear for the absurd poetry of their speech.
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Another poll, also conducted after the allegations emerged, had Jones tailing Moore by about 10 percentage points — which, all things considered, isn't too shabby for an Alabama Democrat post-partisan realignment.
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But if all you know about this city is that one time, many years ago, some fans threw snowballs at a very shabby Santa, then you don't know anything about the city.
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But every respectable revolutionary needs a few changes of clothes, and Shockie, on his knees in his shabby room, folded two shirts and a pair of black pants into the kit bag.
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Men believed to be Islamic State fighters, women dressed in black robes and some children stood around the shabby camp area next to high rocks strewn with bits of tents and vehicles.
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Again, these sorts of websites are usually ridiculously old and hooked into hardwired systems even older than they, so it's not much of a surprise to see how shabby this one is.
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Other things, like replacing a shabby carpet or applying a fresh coat of paint, allow the homeowner more control over when the transaction happens, but still, it's a lumpy pattern of expenditures.
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In a shabby hotel room in Shanghai last year, three Chinese men, all surnamed Yang, had questioned Kevin Patrick Mallory, a former CIA covert officer, about the new Trump administration's foreign policy.
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Reichardt regularly shoots her films in this corner of the country, using the backdrop of Oregon's conifer forests, high deserts and shabby strip malls to portray lives led on society's outer rim.
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Dropbox's first quarterly earnings as a public company are not too shabby: it posted $0.08 earnings per share, beating estimates of $0.05, and $316.30 million in revenue, beating estimates of $309.2 million.
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A far cry from the white cube, here, gallery walls are painted black; the left lighting comically dim, recalling, at best, a shabby porn palace, at worst, the inside of a basement.
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He seeks refuge in a shabby amusement park, and finds it with Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw), an African refugee who lives in a nearby shantytown with her toddler son, Jonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole).
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We begin with a corpse named Charles (Greg Tannahill), which of course will simply not lie still, and are subsequently introduced to a lineup of glamorous suspects in slightly shabby aristo drag.
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Things get especially dicey when she moves with her young son into a shabby Manhattan apartment and strikes up a romance with an F.B.I. agent (Matthew Modine) who has her under surveillance.
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"The aircraft maker is up more than 50 percent year to date, leaving the second-place performer, Apple, up 39 percent, not shabby, but in the dust, " the "Mad Money " host said.
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Which, considering the amount of trolling on the internet, seems a not-too-shabby stat to support the idea that people really are using their Right to be Forgotten in good faith.
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Often, the words being spoken are simultaneously seen (via Eva von Schweinitz's projections) sliding down the walls of Jim Findlay's multi-table set, which suggests the shabby boardroom of an underfinanced company.
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He invites the girls ashore, gets them jobs as stripping singers at the slightly unsavory joint where he works, welcomes them into his clan's shabby apartment, and quickly wins Silver's undying love.
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The day after the raids, I look through the window of her parlor, already a shabby cousin to the swanky restaurant next door, and it's now clearly a thing of the past.
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He had been born poor himself, in a camp outside the shabby ranching-and-mining town of La Libertad in Chontales province, the illegitimate son of a prospector and an Indian peasant woman.
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His clothes (often long johns and T-shirt) were stained and shabby, the room less like a living room and more like a gruddy one-bedroom apartment dropped inside of a family's home.
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And with the Maori centenary in 2010 came signs that the NZRU was belatedly making amends for its earlier attitude as it made an official apology for the shabby historical collusion with apartheid.
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Photo: APWith its endless parade of corporate shills, industry flacks, cronies, and quacks, it's become clear that there are no acts of pettiness too shabby—or grifts too cheap—for Donald Trump's administration.
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A few weeks ago it launched its first weatherproof outdoor camera, the $119 Blink XT. Blink says it shipped over 250,000 cameras in 2016 which ain't too shabby for a security cam startup.
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Here and there were off-colors: elegant Archaic Words, outlandish Loanwords, shabby Misused Words begging in the gutter, the jagged neon patterns of a popular Vulgar Slang cackling madly as they ran headlong.
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The series opens in grand and promising fashion, with the only episode directed by Murphy, showing Versace's world of splendor and opulence at his landmark mansion, which is contrasted with Cunanan's shabby hotel.
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Kanye may hog all the headlines when it comes to proclaiming the most stylish rappers alive, but it turns out fellow collaborator 2 Chainz isn't doing too shabby in the fashion department himself.
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I was always very plain and somewhat shabby, no matter, there must have been an aura of artistic intensity around me, even though I didn't go to college for art, I studied English.
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At least insofar as they can foist what are pretty shabby bets onto a public market primed to receive them, and make enough cash on the offerings so they don't look completely dumb.
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The company was founded in 2003, when industrial designer Ethan Imboden saw an opportunity to inject innovation and high-end design into an industry better known for cheap products made from shabby materials.
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When he first turned up to business meetings in the early 1990s he was known as the "lad in the cotton-wool coat" for the shabby worker's jacket he wore, two residents said.
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Sinosphere In the center of Beijing's booming commercial district, with soaring office towers, gleaming shopping malls and luxury apartment complexes, sits a shabby, four-story building with an office that houses stupendous wealth.
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In one gentrifying enclave of Fatih, in a neighborhood called Balat, shabby-chic cafes and quirky antique shops have sprouted on the narrow streets, raising tensions and testing the limits of social diversity.
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The Latin Elephant group is campaigning to ensure that Latin businesses are beneficiaries rather than victims of these plans, arguing that they have played a key role in revitalizing a once-shabby area.
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There's plenty of shabby furniture piling up in the background, threatening to trap us in this episode forever — can't you get to work on rearranging that, maybe get some of the lead out?
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Even before the current financial crisis, Rio de Janeiro has long been troubled by massive social problems — the inequality famously visible in the contrast between shabby favela housing and gleaming beachside apartment blocks.
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He was just a hair over 21, as gangly as you'd imagine he would be, when he slipped quietly into the cramped room at Facebook's shabby then-headquarters in downtown Palo Alto, Calif.
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In Anthony Horowitz's new mystery, THE SENTENCE IS DEATH (Harper, $27.99), a celebrity divorce lawyer named Richard Pryce is murdered with a 1982 bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild, which is not too shabby.
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The two cities — often thought of by out-of-towners simply as Miami — have blossomed on the concept that everybody needs a break, from the wild to the tranquil, from shabby to chic.
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While Simenon's novel is set mainly in Montmartre, Delannoy shifted the location to Le Marais, shooting much of the action in what were then the shabby streets in and around Place des Vosges.
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What follows is less a consideration of the fallout from an act of euthanasia than a succession of disjointed, dreamlike scenes of Theresa listlessly caressing tree trunks and her mother's shabby-chic furnishings.
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People were still out, jostling with each other in narrow lanes and still crowding into bus shelters, sleeping eight to a room in shabby tenements, and showing the impossibility of maintaining social distance.
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People were still out, jostling with each other in narrow lanes and still crowding into bus shelters, sleeping eight to a room in shabby tenements, and showing the impossibility of maintaining social distance.
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"Luca had said, 'I don't want it, it's too shabby,' and I said, 'Listen, this is perfect — I can see Mr. Perlman passing the time, reading on the sofa,'" Visconti di Modrone remembers.
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Each shabby stair to the second-floor space is a step back in time, toward a collection of fun-house mirrors, painted signs and wooden midway prizes and ticket rolls in glass cases.
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I spent a lot of time as a journeyman hack with a not-too-shabby day rate in Condé's old HQ (I will forever think of it as 4X2, as we called it).
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A staff writer for The New Yorker, she continues to report from this territory, where political or romantic ideals battle it out with shabby realities, and her investigations are frequently sparked by fiction.
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From the earliest Roman riverside settlements through to the sad and shabby sight of what's left of modern Soho, London is undoubtedly a place that comes to life under the cloak of darkness.
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SAO PAULO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once a proud symbol of resistance to racial segregation, a shabby square in Sao Paulo's dilapidated downtown now testifies to a new chasm - between Brazil's housed and many homeless.
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Elsewhere, mousy self-taught "historians" sit in shabby cubby holes filled with papers "proving" all the wrongs and the lies committed against Japan, while revisionist commentators fulminate in cable-television studios with wobbly sets.
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It was shabby of Theresa May to try to bypass legislators—and a strategic misjudgment to waste time by appealing December's ruling by the High Court, which the Supreme Court has now straightforwardly upheld.
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Captain Joe Pavelski hasn't been doing too shabby in his own right, recording back-to-back multi-point performances while also scoring and setting up a goal in the first meeting with Nashville. 1.
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Gordon's not making a ton of cash right now -- only $790k (still not too shabby) -- but if he continues to light up the field this season, he'll get a fat-ass contract in 2019.
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In the grey market sales are often clinched in small, shabby stores or via online platforms that do not have most of the watches in stock and source them only when orders are placed.
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He didn't bring out Morris Day and the Time, but Travis Scott ("Goosebumps,") Future ("Mask Off,") and Schoolboy Q ("That Part") weren't a shabby second place, and I'm still betting Dre appears next weekend).
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The homes are interesting for architecture buffs but I can't recommend them unreservedly as rentals: the mix of shabby vintage furniture and second-rate modern appliances gives the whole project a slightly amateurish feel.
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King III tells us he thought Cory Booker and Kamala Harris particularly stood out, Mayor Pete wasn't too shabby and he's always interested to hear what Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have to say.
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"Nobody's Fool" is set in the mid-1980s, in the upstate New York town of North Bath, shabby sister to the more prosperous Schuyler Springs, where all the good luck — and tourist dollars — resides.
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The truth about Wes' mother Rose has almost completely come to light now that the expansive pool of her flashback blood has seeped into all the rooms of their shabby apartment and perhaps beyond.
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"Without me, he'd just be Clark Kent!" scolds the receiver from its shabby cradle, expressing salty disdain for modern man's addiction to technology and the death of privacy, human interaction, and spontaneity with it.
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On the rebound, back at "shabby little Shibden," her family estate, Lister stumbles on a fresh romantic opportunity, one her own aunt points out: Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle), a young heiress, has moved nearby.
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Burt Reynolds directs this romantic comedy about Guilt (Dom DeLuise), a shabby, lonely demigod who falls head over heels for the goddess of Love (Loni Anderson) while stalking insecure tourists on a cruise ship.
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It found that many of the people who owned the shares were family members or acquaintances of Mr. Wu. Addresses for some shareholders led to shabby buildings or to business that open shell companies.
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The city is on a high desert plateau, but behind all those blast walls and shabby modern buildings, many Kabul homes hide luscious blooms: fruit trees and plants that flower for months on end.
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With a deft hand, Geist shifts between how he saw Arrowhead Lodge as a boy (grand in both scale and importance) and then looking back from adulthood (a generic hotel, somewhat shabby and small).
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And so for many visitors to Beirut, a city whose shabby-chic architecture, great cuisine and French colonial influences are otherwise enchanting, the first thing to greet them was a strong whiff of garbage.
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The tigers were property of the Kings Romans Group, which operates a casino here, along with hotels, a shooting range, a cockfighting and bullfighting ring, a Chinatown-themed shopping center, and this shabby zoo.
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In the gray market sales are often clinched in small, shabby stores or via online platforms that do not have most of the watches in stock and source them only when orders are placed.
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His new demeanor and shabby appearance could've been used to show how people might externalize survivor's guilt, and how even godlike heroes can deteriorate — but instead, the changes came across as problematic and disappointing.
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While the exteriors of the complex looked shabby from years of neglect, the replacement of several structures with inferior housing that will, for a time, look more orderly but seems a denial of human vitality.
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As well as the introduction of a 'fit and proper persons' test and parachute payments for relegated sides, this was intended to shore up a league system which was in a seriously shabby state financially.
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To state the obvious, the standing of Ireland's Catholic church has been devastated by revelations of clerical child abuse and in particular, of shabby collusion between church and state authorities in covering up such practices.
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STANDING ON A chair in a shabby classroom, a technician peels the plastic off the end of a cable with his teeth and attaches it to some exposed wires that dangle around a light bulb.
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While pension-related gains are "not too shabby in the current environment," investors should be wary because these "low-quality" earnings do not reflect any gains in the underlying fundamentals of a business, Zion said.
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On the outskirts of Sanaa and in towns outside Taiz, clusters of shabby tent encampments housing thousands of families fleeing nearby violence have cropped up, where jobless parents idle and many children shrivel with hunger.
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Over the following nine years, I've rejoined Twitter, leveraged connections for survival as freelance writer, made friends, inspired enemies, and written a shabby series of think-pieces about the heartburn it so regularly gives me.
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In many other elevators over the years at the festival, I've been the shabby, backpack-toting guest sharing rides with celebs dressed for the red carpet (Keira Knightley, Reese Witherspoon and Zac Efron among them).
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While Hugh Hanson's costumes are subdued in color, the decaying throne room designed by Brittany Vasta is effectively shabby, and Tony Galaska's lighting at times looks poisonous, Ms. Monte does not neglect droll atmospheric touches.
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Until a local points to an immense and somewhat shabby white building, a few blocks away, and explains that it is a housing project where rival drug gangs occasionally lob homemade grenades at one another.
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Also known as "The City of Brotherly Love," Philadelphia is known for its historical and cultural ties to the founding of the United States — and you may have heard that their cheesesteaks aren't too shabby.
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For a certain kind of person in America, the New York Intellectuals had so much: vigorous debate, devotion to literature and ideas, and suitably shabby homes in the tasteful precincts of Manhattan and coastal Maine.
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Fidel Castro's revolution started here in 5003 when his shabby yet determined army attacked Cuban president Fulgencio Batista's troops at the Moncada Barracks, located a mere mile from the festival grounds at the Teatro Heredia.
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These girls are from poor villages near Cox's Bazar, a shabby tourist resort on the longest uninterrupted sea beach in the world, in Southeast Bangladesh, a majority Muslim country of more than 160 million people.
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People can't see through the shabby, patchy clothes, or the shoes with holes, and when they look at my untidy hair, they curl their lips scornfully and move away as if I were a beggar.
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One of the most powerful scenes here is an invasive interview with Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts), who summons Marcus into his office after Marcus moves to shabby new quarters to get away from his roommates.
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However, if I take into consideration that my skin's health has improved and that I've saved a ton of time and money with this one base product, it's not too shabby of a trade-off.
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Sterling stores, once the envy of the mall, are now shabby, the disembodied busts of necks and stand-alone fingers fraying at the edges, their thin layers of paper velvet curling up at the seams.
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BEIHAI, China — In the darkness of the tropical waters of the South China Sea, the shabby, blue-hulled Chinese fishing trawler edged closer to what was almost certain arrest for Zhang Deren, the boat's engineer.
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The action is set in a grand, slightly shabby home in a suburb of Paris; the house lights are kept down, the audience members stowed safely in their seats, asked only to watch and listen.
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The specter of the shabby treatment of Hill, a former colleague of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, during his 1991 confirmation hearings looms over all of this back-and-forth between Senate Republicans and Ford.
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Nothing seems alien to him; he captures the moral atmosphere of a sleek advertising agency, of a shabby West End dance hall, of a minor public school, of a shotgun wedding in an Irish pub.
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As for his resume, NOT TOO SHABBY -- Kyle was a 1st round pick in the 2013 NFL Draft and spent his entire 6-year career with the Chicago Bears, making the Pro Bowl 3 times.
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At the vacation rental company HomeAway, missing or shabby sheets and towels are the most common complaints mentioned in customer satisfaction surveys about house amenities, says Karen Fuller, HomeAway's senior director for global market research.
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Julien, particularly, pads around his shabby castle with the look of a slightly corpulent beast, cleaning off his dinner table by brushing the crumbs to the floor and then sweeping them away with a broom.
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It all can be filed under an initiative Ford introduced last year called the "City of Tomorrow," a glossy, utopian vision of urban mobility that largely ignores the shabby condition of most of our major cities.
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So basically, "The Chinese" living in Silicon Valley are sending animated gifs, bantering, and complaining about shabby Palo Alto buildings all the while dreaming of moving to Asia to reuse teabags and not see their children.
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STANDING ON A chair in a shabby classroom, a technician uses his teeth to peel the plastic off the end of a cable, before attaching it to some exposed wires that dangle around a light bulb.
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She was arrested near the Rio Grande Valley in late May, and her family was taken to a shabby, freezing facility known as a hielera—"cooler" or "icebox" in English—infamous among advocates for undocumented immigrants.
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Letters To the Editor: After arriving at Pennsylvania Station from New Jersey, I read with incredulity that the station provides classical music to ease harried travelers ("Curating a Polished Playlist for a Shabby Hub," June 6).
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Kim said last week he wanted the "shabby" and "capitalist" facilities at Mt Kumgang resort removed and rebuilt, in the latest blow to South Korean hopes of reducing tensions between two nations still technically at war.
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It was a very worn copy of an American literature textbook I found in the English Department on day one, and the similarly shabby purple world literature textbook, plus any accompanying workbooks I could scrounge up.
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On many days, Mr. Qin's secondhand taxis cross the bridge in a convoy of more than 100 vehicles, including trucks loaded with containers draped in shabby tarpaulins and secondhand minibuses for North Korea's rickety transportation system.
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In its last years in the Seagram Building, the Four Seasons had become a shabby but lovely museum of midcentury architecture and design, with martinis that I didn't mind overpaying for and food that I did.
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At the same time, in a gorgeously shabby Ars Nova production directed by Jordan Fein, it reassured us that as long as humans (or androids) can gather to hear music, music will have something to say.
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It's a badly explained system, but if you get into it, you can soon construct some quite wonderfully shabby shacks and close-to-collapse condos, to keep all of these drone-like, conversation-lite NPCs happy.
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It took a long time to remember that when his career in music videos started — with "Refugee," to pick one hypnotically shabby-looking performance — he looked like the average girl's prom date: cuter than you thought.
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And now, in the run-up to Valentine's Day — that trial by fire for the lonely — he comes home to find his shabby apartment fully cleaned out by a burglar, except for things he never wanted.
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His subsequent features were increasingly sex-obsessed and even pornographic — the relatively staid "Goto" is a voluptuously shabby Punch and Judy show anticipating the work of the Brothers Quay or the great Czech animator Jan Svankmajer.
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In Moscow, our final stop, he drove me past a shabby apartment complex where he imagines Charlie, the morbidly obese protagonist of "The Whale," his breakout play produced by Playwrights Horizons in 2012, might have lived.
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Kim said last week he wanted the "shabby" and "capitalist" facilities at Mt Kumgang resort removed and rebuilt, in the latest blow to South Korean hopes of reducing tensions between two nations still technically at war.
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Only two blocks long, this shabby lane full of competing aromas, lined with shops selling jewelry, antiques, knickknacks, artworks and, especially, Oriental rugs, has been a magnet for generations of foreign visitors looking for Afghan exotica.
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And while we imagine those "new projects" that she was referring to include Watson&aposs recent role as Meg March in Greta Gerwig&aposs adaptation of "Little Women," Shipka&aposs projects aren&apost too shabby either.
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The sun was sinking low over the desert as I drove down the wide street leading from Maher's home, past shabby apartment blocks with laundry drying on every balcony and stunted palm trees lining the meridian.
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Formerly a working class quarter of shabby apartment buildings and unkempt gardens on twisting, hilly streets, over the past few years the neighborhood's modest housing has been mostly leveled and replaced by luxury residential high-rises.
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While of course she has the help of her trusty makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic to make certain her full face of glam is expertly shaded and buffed to perfection, the reality star is not too shabby herself.
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The Associated Press, citing the official Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang, reports that Kim visited the Diamond Mountain resort recently and described the facilities' conditions as "shabby" and not up to the standards of North Korea.
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While I didn't get close to Apple's rated spec of 12 continuous hours of "wireless web," I did manage to squeeze about 6-7 hours out of it while working and streaming music, which isn't too shabby.
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Despite last night's loss, Wall put up 29 points, nine steals, and four rebounds, while going 11-11 from the free throw line — not too shabby for having an international superstar chattering in your ear all night.
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Apple will argue in public that 13 million is not too shabby for a service that didn't exist a year ago; privately, music label executives who talk to Apple executives report that the Apple guys are disappointed.
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KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A sex workers' committee meeting is underway on the first floor of a shabby building at the entrance of Sonagachi, South Asia's largest red light district in the Indian city of Kolkata.
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" Hopefully Replay staff will get more than the "shabby treatment" experienced by Moe Szyslak's regulars who put cobras in the cash register, lit him on fire, and got banned for pulling the dreaded "ol' sugar me do.
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Ms. Kriger cashed in her 401(k) plan and found a wreck of an old stately home in the Ancienne Medina, the old city of Casablanca, which was then and is still a shabby, litter-strewn place.
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When the sun finally came out and the wind relented, we outfitted Roxie in the smallest life vest we could find and climbed aboard F.D.R.'s glass-bottomed boat — a shabby vessel with a picture frame bottom.
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Even if the corner market seems sad and shabby and its aisles are barely wide enough to accommodate a single mini-shopping cart, you can dash in for a carton of milk or a loaf of bread.
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Pretty well, except that something vital to the success of Reitman's film—a shabby air of relaxation, with our heroes none too impressed by all that weird stuff from beyond the grave—seems to have leaked away.
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LONDON — LD50, an art gallery on a quiet street in the shabby-but-hip Dalston section of East London, would seem to be an improbable forum for debates about American politics in the era of President Trump.
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In "Glassland," Toni Collette's portrayal of an embittered Irish woman drinking herself to death in her shabby home on the outskirts of Dublin, is one of the most unsparing screen depictions of extreme alcoholism that I can remember.
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ABOUT THE CELTICS (2112-14): Center Al Horford scored 14 fourth-quarter points - making four 3-pointers - to turn a shabby effort through three quarters into a solid 19-point, 12-rebound performance in the win over Philadelphia.
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Before presenting the award for Best Pop Music video, Jackson delivered an earnest and inspiring invective against the wave of white nationalist movements in cities across the country — complete with a not-too-shabby impression of President Trump.
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And there was Willie Inez Warren, a gay mother "hen," and her two "gay for pay" sons, the part-time hustlers Eddie and James; they were considered shabby but honest folk, always off duty at the beer bust.
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Whether it's shabby-chic, faded Hollywood glamor, or the staunch-yet-penniless vibe of the heroines in Grey Gardens, it seems society has always had a complex, car-crash attitude towards people and places that have gone downhill.
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A couple of Brooklynites escaped to the Catskills in 2017, found a shabby 1962 motor lodge with a central A-frame, converted it into a 10-room hotel and injected some serious style into a one-stoplight town.
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The Other Phone announced this fall wasn't shabby either: chief executive Tim Cook said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call that the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus "instantly" became Apple's top-two selling products at launch.
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Living there, in a bunkhouse created out of an interconnecting complex of shabby mobile homes, were several men with intellectual disability, including Leon Jones, who worked picking up dead poultry at the Kraft meatpacking plant across the street.
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Divorced when Brooke was a toddler from Frank Shields, a well-born and glamorous business executive, she and Brooke spent summers in Southhampton, N.Y., in a relatively shabby part of town, so that Brooke could see her father.
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We're obviously not about to enact War Plan Red over a 20 percent tax on aluminum, but shabby treatment of an ally and alarming rhetoric about the possibility of military conflict tend to erode the work of generations.
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The diet seemed to act like a time machine, and Dr. McCay's hungry rats maintained their dapper, glossy coats of fur and frisked about their cages; their well-fed counterparts doddered about in shabby coats and then died.
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After a gorgeous, winding drive from the airport, snaking through the Amhara region, the driver dropped me off and unloaded my bag in front of a shabby-looking hotel that was not the agreed-upon Mountain View Hotel.
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Mr. Kim said during a recent visit that the South Korean facilities were "shabby" and lacked "national character," comparing them to "makeshift tents in a disaster-stricken area," the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported on Wednesday.
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The OperaCamion, a mobile stage, with its cast and crew, set up in a shabby square of scorched, uncut grass in the outlying San Basilio quarter of Rome, where Ms. Scen has lived for the past 30 years.
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With his red-rimmed eyes and a cigarette drooping from his lips, Harry comes across as one of those classically shabby gumshoe types, the existential inside-outsider who chafes against the rules even as he saves the day.
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Some visitors complain about the free-for-all traffic, the polluted air, the trash in the streets, the shabby restrooms at tourist spots and the insistent peddlers proffering bundles of curios like five Pharaonic prints for 50 Egyptian pounds.
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Right this moment, likely somewhere in a shabby gray apartment building on the outskirts of a sprawling, sweltering mega-city, a teenager is making beats in a bedroom on an old computer loaded up with bootlegged music production software.
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This was an especially positive bit of feedback for a company that had grown synonymous with soulless printers and shabby PCs, and was trying to woo consumers with the mobile webOS products it had gained from its Palm acquisition.
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Being a neophyte in the world of woodworking — I've made a shabby but sturdy shed — I can appreciate the value of a good partner who can help measure, cut, hold stuff and generally be a second pair of hands.
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A whole airport named after you—it's not too shabby, really, as life achievements go, although on the list of things I'd want my own name associated with, an airport is only slightly above the department of motor vehicles.
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While he admits that Khan's tenure has been anything but smooth sailing, Sammy points to mitigating circumstances, not least the vaguely shabby state in which he found the club and the fact that he has spent considerable sums since.
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"It's really a good step, it's really a positive step," said Ashir Haider, representative of Greece's Shi'ite Muslim community, which celebrated the end of Ramadan in a basement in a shabby part of Athens lined with car repair shops.
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"Zogby Analytics has a track record of remarkably inaccurate preelection polls," Stanford University professor Jon Krosnick told the Atlantic when Trump was touting Zogby polls in October 245, noting that the shabby performance was a result of nonrandom sampling.
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His eclectic taste in objects leaned toward elegant mahogany and marbled tables, shabby sofas, faded damasks and a sock cabinet that was designed by Sir William Chambers and that belonged to the first Earl of Iveagh (smelly socks included).
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In this latest version — directed, as the original was, by Garry Hynes for the Druid company — their shabby living quarters stretch beneath a vast expanse of sky, hinting hopefully at life beyond the tight little town of the title.
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When he got back to his shabby apartment, police tape still hanging from the door, we could see that the "manuscript" consisted of just a few pages, not the hundreds of pages it appeared to be in Noah's dreams.
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Its counterpart, HPE, hasn't been too shabby, either, Cramer noted: the company recently delivered a massive earnings beat, bullish guidance and a 50 percent dividend boost, sending shares of HPE up 15 percent over the last three trading sessions.
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He initiates her into the tribe of runners, brings her back to the shabby room he shares with Milo — littered with books and booze and not much else — and she stays, immediately warped into the fabric of the relationship.
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I don't hate the cut that was released — but it's not a patch on the director's cut, even in the shabby, hard-to-see version you're likely to find in the less reputable corners of the film-loving world.
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I discovered that in fact Anne Case (the wife) is the first author on this paper and that she is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton — not too shabby in her own right.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — A cluster of snails are glued, like barnacles on a ship, to a disused metal post, which stands in a field of dry grass, a shabby apartment block looming in the background.
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By the time the first season ended on November 1, the 10-episode series had explored the lives of black Atlantans from shabby apartments to swank nightclubs, mundane workdays to pretentious parties, prison holding cells to rumpled bedroom sheets.
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While the agency that became the KGB ("Committee for State Security") was housed in striking headquarters close to the foreign ministry, earning the label "near neighbours", the GRU became the "distant neighbours", exiled to a small, shabby house much further away.
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He ends up at an equally shabby old hotel—another major red flag for weird shit—called the Prima Donna, and here reality really starts to bend, as Vince catches glimpses of stars like Tupac and Amy Winehouse in the hallway.
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Bobby, the hardest working man on this show, gives William the help he needs to pick out a ring, and Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boos William and Shannan's house from shabby cabin in the woods to cozy hygge oasis of Netflix and chill.
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" It said the renovations were the second phase of a makeover that began in 2012, when The Wall Street Journal quoted a consultant hired for the project as saying that Mr. Roche's design was "just darn tired" and "beyond shabby chic.
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The deals go live on January 2nd, and aren't too shabby: for the Apple Watch, if you buy either Apple's latest Series 4 model or last year's Series 3, T-Mobile will give you a $200 discount on the second one.
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The rest of my birth chart isn't too shabby, either, but I love that my sun sign, the sign that I read my horoscope for, is an earth sign that's known for its dry wit, work ethic, and, er, intensity.
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Internet access is patchy and slow; roads and classrooms can be surprisingly shabby; a tangle of red tape restricts service industries; and under Mrs Merkel the retirement age has fallen for some and will soon be lower than in France.
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Yet it is hard to be intimidated on meeting Ms Jackson (pictured) at her New York haunt of choice—a humble Manhattan diner—where she is dressed in what she calls her "work gear": a shabby Tintin sweatshirt and no makeup.
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The cars, which the government says should only be driven by Saudi men, offer women, who are banned from driving in the conservative Muslim country, an alternative to being driven to work by chauffeurs, male relatives or the shabby taxi system.
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Our Egyptian hosts also sent us frequent invitations to Foreign Ministry receptions, affording us a chance to practice our kindergarten Arabic and execrable French with low-level envoys from minor nations while sipping fruit juice in a genteelly shabby salon.
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ATTERIGEVILLE, South Africa — On a sunny winter day in May 2015 in this run-down suburb, a 7003-minute drive from the shiny office buildings and shopping centers of central Johannesburg, 30 tables were symmetrically arrayed in a large, shabby hall.
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It was a shabby affair: A few dozen troops machine-gunned the presidential palace in Caracas, the capital, while the president slipped out a side door and Mr. Chávez himself struggled to coordinate the revolt from the military museum nearby.
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The press conference was happening in a shabby room with ratty, drawn curtains and a scuffed fake-wood floor; army officers of different ranks and in a variety of caps sat around a horseshoe-shaped table draped in a white cloth.
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I met him one evening in my home town when I was saying my prayers in the overheated synagogue, a gaunt shadowy fellow, dressed in shabby black clothes, with a look in his eyes that was not of this world.
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Not too shabby for a game that was the most-downloaded of all time on PS Plus when it came out in July 2015, doing five million in a month, and only received a proper PS4 retail release in June 2016.
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But that video, along with an earlier one, has been upstaged by a bizarre surrounding installation that transforms Cohan's white-box space into a funky Chinatown shop or bus-company waiting room with metal chairs, broken A.T.M.s and a shabby facade.
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In the frenzy and frustration that come from five individuals sharing a cramped and shabby apartment (rendered with claustrophobic decrepitude in Clint Ramos's set, impeccably lighted by Alex Jainchill), the members of the Younger family often talk right over one another.
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" She certainly made herself at home in the shabby old-world elegance of the late-20th century grande dame of a hotel, frequently joining a tattered collection of neighborhood eccentrics at the Palm Court, wearing, "the same old purple dress.
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Esmail might not be a tourist, but he is on a vacation of sorts, pursuing lifestyles nicer than what he might have left back home, nicer than his setup in a shabby Danish apartment complex whose other residents are immigrants.
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Line: North Carolina -5 (William Hill) Houston is one of two teams still in the N.C.A.A. tournament from outside college basketball's six power conferences (though its own league, the American Athletic Conference, is not too shabby, least of all this year).
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The show's shabby-chic set could have been the living room of a seventh Friend, and guests included experts peddling advice on "the three things you need to know to get a man's attention" in front of a live audience.
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Once the bowls are emptied, donkey tacked to the cart by strops of old leather, the bottles rattled on board, the men loaded, the trumpet unsnapped from its shabby case, buffed on Necmettin's sleeve and sounded, they are off. Yarak!
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It was now safe for the group to rest in the wavering grass and pitch their shabby tents and start the fire they all had been craving the smell and the comforting sight of since they'd taken flight that morning.
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BELGRADE, Serbia — In a shabby refugee center on the outskirts of Belgrade, an Afghan artist nicknamed Little Picasso spends his days sketching and dreaming while living in limbo, seemingly immune to the deepening sense of hopelessness and despair all around him.
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It has critical plaudits to spare, and though it's not a hit on the level of something like Game of Thrones or even Watchmen, its ratings aren't too shabby for what amounts to a high-gloss prestige soap about rich assholes.
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Every time your hero, your attorney, humiliates the good and the great, you feel a swell of pride; you feel, in your shabby house with the leaky roof, that you have obtained a measure of power, in Manhattan, in Washington.
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Maybe she thought she was showing a softer side at that private meeting last week — her human face, if you will — but the performance was shabby, a mixed bag of practiced remorse and the callousness typical of the ruling class.
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It's directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, of "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Wild," and he does a wonderful job capturing the luxe bohemia of velvet-rope yoga classes and shabby-chic seaside restaurants, Nancy Meyers kitchens and decks made for perfect sunsets.
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He is the overwhelmingly preeminent political figure in the United States and will prevail eventually over the shabby retinue of Potomac insiders and cliquish snobs that besets him, as it clings to the official furniture and shrieks righteous epithets at him.
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" The other near-perfect essay is "The Great Barrier Reef," delicious partly because it is such a Baedeker of bummers: a grim hotel, a shabby vessel, bovine fellow travelers, appalling food, seedy crew members, bad weather, "barfing Australian senior citizens.
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The answer to all three questions is Mr. Trump's pledge to put his self-described talents as a builder to work by spending $1 trillion on restoring the country's crumbling bridges, potholed roads, rust-bucket trains and shabby-not-chic airports.
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They are stationed in the dry savanna near the park's main entrance, the most likely spot to see lions, and not far from a shabby set of tourist cabanas along the wide Gambia River that cater to the park's few visitors.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - In the first hours after the biggest political upset in Malaysia's history, the chief editor of news site Malaysiakini gathered his team in their cramped newsroom in a shabby industrial estate on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.
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While the U.S. was ranked fifth in the world for labor productivity (not too shabby), unemployment rates are almost twice as high for African-American people than white people nationwide, and more than double for people living with a disability.
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"It offered shabby rooms of the building at the Chongjin Regenerated Fibre Factory for a bag production base and thus caused great anxiety to Kim Jong Un who came to the factory to learn about the bag production in localities," KCNA said.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korea's "backward" and "shabby" facilities at the North's Mount Kumgang resort must be removed and rebuilt in a modern way, state media reported on Wednesday, in the latest sign of cooling relations between the neighbours.
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In addition to a tiny Muslim community, the area is home to a vibrant gay scene, a host of foreign restaurants and the remains of a shabby red-light district that used to cater to soldiers from a nearby American army base.
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Millennials, many of whom have lost all hope of buying a home, have a morbid fascination with stories about the capital's outrageous prices, including a recent one about a shabby, narrowboat-sized house in west London which went on sale for £20143,22014 ($22,22040).
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Specially, Microsoft's response to Xbox One users read: Not too shabby, although Microsoft's gesture almost certainly targets the few unassuming randos who legitimately came across it while browsing the store and not the throngs sharing the link on Reddit and other sites.
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Read MoreSelf-driving cars confused by shabby roads Hyundai's nonprofit arm has raised more than $115 million for pediatric cancer research since it began 18 years ago, and it says it receives a donation from every new car sold from participating Hyundai dealers.
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Bortholuzzi tells The Creators Project that he tries in his miniatures to "recreate a proper atmosphere of [a] time or location," and whether he's rendering a street scene, a shabby garage, or Bilbo Baggins' hobbit habitat, he spares no detail in his recreations.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Venezuelan army lieutenant Alejandro Pedra once used to proudly stand guard in pristine white uniform outside the presidential palace in the Venezuelan capital Caracas, now he stands in a shabby tracksuit selling sandwiches on a street corner in Bogota.
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Making a little over a billion dollars a year in just seasonal Easter candy isn't too shabby, but it's small compared to the approximately $45 million pulled in every single day for nonseasonal candies such as chocolate candy bars in convenience stores.
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"I don't think you go on a vacation and disappear, and don't tell anybody, and cut your hair and dye your hair, and hide out in a shabby apartment in a resort town," Tarrant County, Texas, Sheriff Dee Anderson said last month.
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Inside a slightly shabby building on the outskirts of of Kemptville, near Ottawa, the World Curling Federation (WCF) has gathered a world-class team of scientists and premier curling talent to unravel a scientific mystery that is rattling the foundations of curling.
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According to the Recording Academy, the seven-time nominee will open the show with a song from her latest album, 1989, which is up for Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Record Of The Year (not too shabby, Swift).
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After The New York Times exposed the situation, in the small city of Newberry, S.C., various government agencies worked to rescue the men from their shabby living conditions, and began a series of investigations into the hows and whys of the arrangement.
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After helping convict the Rosenbergs as a young federal prosecutor and then working in Washington as a top aide to McCarthy, Mr. Cohn had returned to New York, starting a boutique practice in his shabby but elegant townhouse on East 68th Street.
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Now that it's no longer considered shabby to show up to work/a date/your life with stubble, and beards are so common that we wouldn't recognize half the population without them, there is less urgency to be equipped with daily shaving tools.
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In the shabby one-bedroom ground-floor apartment where he had lived for about a year and a half, Mr. Bowers made such an insubstantial impression on his next-door neighbor, Kerri Owens, that she forgot his name soon after he introduced himself.
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The girls also provide a handy window to the world the series is set in, and director Saverio Costanzo (who helms all eight episodes) turns the little plaza the girls' shabby apartment buildings surround into a microcosm of the world at large.
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I arrived at the Berlin Hotel, on the fourth floor of a dusty old colonial style building in the heart of central Cairo — it was a bit more shabby than chic, but the owner spoke English well and the staff was responsive.
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The dusty prison stripes worn by the singing convicts of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" are a shabby sight next to the crisp suit and tie worn by Michael Bublé in this new special, which pairs the crooner with a 36-piece orchestra.
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Sitting in a comfortably shabby trattoria near the West Village apartment he shares with his wife and daughter, he was craggier, more rough-hewn, with a star-shaped dimple on his right cheek, a sweep of silver hair and a short, scraggly beard.
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British counterterrorism police said at a news conference that they had pored through thousands of hours of security-camera footage, cross-referenced the results with passport data, and on May 2, identified a shabby hotel in East London where the men had stayed.
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It's easy to see why when sitting in one of the Westside's 270 seats, the actors mugging in close range, the Skid Row sets intentionally shabby, the fake blood taking on the endearing, barely scary quality of a 1980s science-fiction film.
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He is a gift to those continentals who love the familiar clichés; who imagine Britain as an old-fashioned, quasi-Victorian society of rigid class differences, lip-curling toffs and shabby proletarians, absurd social rituals, public-school humour and eccentric colonial adventurers.
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But what if lexicographers did us the favor of not only anointing words but annually retiring a few that have been embraced too exuberantly and look a little shabby for it — a little dazed to find themselves miles from their original meanings.
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Then reality — the shabby rooming house in which she tries to begin again, and the fickleness of her new love — sets in, and Hester chooses to end her life, which is where Terence Davies's adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play begins.
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The shabby tourist stop, located just a few blocks from the White House, took on the air of a raucous festival for people who believe in civilizational conflict, complete with reunions of old friends and a swelling anticipation for the headline act.
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In "887," his wondrous and wrenching solo show running through next weekend at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mr. Lepage, 59, acts alongside a giant cube that conjures his shabby Quebec City childhood home, his current chic apartment and other smaller boxes, too.
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Obviously, the trend of allowing the outside to see the inside is not a new one — gossip and its tabloid incarnations, as well as tell-alls and all the shabby circuses like it, were skulking around well before the digital age ever dawned.
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Ordinary Algerians, in the grimy downtown streets where great chunks of plaster are peeling from the Haussmann-style buildings, in the shabby cafes made shabbier by five years of fluctuating oil prices, and in the mass demonstrations, say there is no going back.
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Plus, Good Trouble's visuals, established in the premiere by Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu, define downtown Los Angeles as undergoing a kind of eternal reclamation, a once-grand space reduced to something shabby, now in the process of being rebuilt.
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No company has shown any real intention to take this on — Facebook famously contracts the responsibility out to shabby operations that cut corners and produce mediocre results (at huge human and monetary cost); YouTube simply waits for disasters to happen and then quibbles unconvincingly.
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Fifty Shades Of Grey, an adaptation of E.L. James's wildly popular first novel, burst into theaters on February 13, 2015 and earned a total of $571 million — no match for Star Wars: The Force Awaken's $936 million later that year, but not shabby either.
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So begins Lee's new venture: fudging, then eventually all-out forging, juicy letters from some of the entertainment and literary greats, which earn her enough cash to cover her rent in a shabby, rat dropping–strewn apartment uptown for the first time in months.
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With the standing (and finances) of the clergy damaged, in many countries, by child-abuse scandals and shabby attempts to cover them up, the twilight years are a harder prospect than ever for priests on their own, even those who have led exemplary lives.
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CIUDAD GUAYANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - On a recent morning in Venezuela's southern jungle state of Bolivar, Amanda Santamaria, her two sons, one daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter lined up in front of a shabby community health center in the hope of receiving treatment for malaria.
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It is about the students who, 230 years ago on May 21919th, set off from the Red Building and other sites around the city to join a protest at Tiananmen provoked by the shabby treatment of China by its allies after the first world war.
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For Google, that's not too shabby for a newcomer — it's twice the number of Pixels from the year before — but overall it's still pretty weak, and a sign that there's a long road ahead before the company even comes close to challenging Apple and Samsung.
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In fact, Synergy reported that overall spending in enterprise infrastructure, which includes elements like servers, switches and routers and network security; grew 13 percent last year and represents a $125 billion business — not too shabby for a market that is supposedly on its deathbed.
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In this blasted midwinter shitscape, any green shoot means a lot—this, maybe more than any real yearning for a meaningless May game between the Marlins and the Brewers, is why the first shabby beat-writer snapshots out of Spring Training mean so much.
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A brief tour reveals water-filled drainage ditches in place of gutters, as well as evidence of dumping — a common practice in which people toss old tires and other garbage into residential areas rather than designated landfill sites — right next to shabby and crumbling housing.
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During that eight-year hiatus from fighting, Pudzianowski transitioned from the world of yanking passenger jets down a runway with his own body to beating up other giants for money, ultimately compiling a 9-5 record while not looking too shabby, all things considered.
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And the story of "Bang" is as grimy as its setting, with a shabby menagerie of tough guys, stolen-car dealers and loan sharks shredding the local fabric while Gina (Catrin Stewart), an ambitious young police officer, tries to the return the streets to safety.
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The opening of "Little Dorrit" in Marseilles prison is, in its brittle, heat-struck ferocity and ominous shadows, more like Balzac or Hugo; Dickens trying something radically different from "Bleak House" fog or the Dover coach, not that those openings are at all shabby.
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Neighbors say they would see him on the porch of his handsome but unostentatious triplex in Plateau-Mont-Royal, a shabby-chic neighborhood peppered with graffiti, designer furniture shops, dive bars and pastel-painted houses; he was unfailingly polite and usually holding a notepad.
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If you can truly explain and manage the most important values to your partner that are also alien to you — whether they're about privacy, or dignity, or fairness, or money — then you're doing the best job possible, even if you're doing a shabby job otherwise.
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I'd drifted to sleep somewhere between Port Louis, the shabby but atmospheric capital of this remote island in the Indian Ocean, and the Grand Bassin lake, rocked into a pleasant slumber as my taxi wove its way down serpentine roads fringed by sugar cane fields.
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LoveShackFancy, 21 Main Street, Sag Harbor LoveShackFancy, a label that's known for a particular romantic, vintage-inspired aesthetic (think: crochet dresses and Edwardian lace tops), has opened the doors to its first brick-and-mortar shop, in a shabby-chic refurbished farmhouse from the 1780s.
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In addition to the 85 percent accuracy level (which is admittedly not too shabby), Carmel said his team wasn't able to pinpoint the direction of change, that is, to predict whether or not the distinguishing traits were retained from a common ancestor or newly acquired.
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The Gramercy International Art Fair — where dealers sold work out of the shabby rooms where they also slept — eventually outgrew its confines and was renamed the Armory Show (it's now held at Piers 92 and 94, a hulking trade show venue on the Hudson River).
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"Many of these links are vastly exaggerated, and based on extraordinarily shabby evidence," says Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution, one of America's most respected and oldest think-tanks.
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It strategically avoids showing you too much of anything; sometimes, the camera pushes slowly into an empty room in the shabby Hundreds Hall, making us look all around the frame in search of what we're meant to be looking at, only to find nothing.
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And rather than seeing something that is perhaps a little shabby or worn out, [and] seeing that as a negative thing or something that we need to replace, to in fact embrace it as something that we love and that expresses who we are.
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Strzok did his best to fuse himself to the good and dedicated men and women of the finest law enforcement agency in the world, but the truth is that his shabby conduct has done more to damage the FBI than any one person in its storied history.
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Phylyda is designed by Lydia Maurer, whose C.V. includes stints working under Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent, Martine Sitbon at Rue du Mail, and Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy; she also served as creative director at Paco Rabanne in 2012 — not too shabby of a résumé, eh?
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Up and down her street, old, shabby dwellings—many of them, like the one she rented, casualties of the previous decade's foreclosure crisis, purchased at rock-bottom prices by investors who had simply waited around until they appreciated in value—were being sold, gutted, and reconstructed.
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Taylor Felan, a 30-year-old banker, moved to San Marcos with his wife a year ago after they realised that selling their shabby home in Austin would give them enough cash to build a new one on an acre (0.4 hectare) lot in Hays County.
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By the time the day is in full swing, the hallway where young people wait to be called is packed with teenagers, their parents, grandparents, guardians, friends, boyfriends, and girlfriends, with a vibe not unlike a particularly shabby Department of Motor Vehicles full of Dodgers fans.
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"Needed Me" really does feel like something of a Spring Breakers sequel, one that happens to feature one of the biggest pop stars on the planet (sorry, Selena Gomez): it's full of mask-wearing gunmen, motorcycles ripping through shabby neighborhoods, and dimly lit strip club scenes.
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With contracts of up to $100,000 to fly one of these devices for the professional sports league, it's a not-too-shabby career choice if you have the skills to pilot flying devices through a pre-determined maze at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour.
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Pretty much for the last 10 years we've been averaging 10 percent growth in operating profit and earnings per share and a 22.7 percent return on equity is hardly shabby in these very difficult low interest rate environments," he said, "I'm really pleased overall with the results.
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The thrift-store aesthetic of the costume design, the shabby-chic gestalt, and the theme of dissipated childhood promise connected with the back end of a generation whose achievements did not match its sense of entitlement and so compensated with nostalgia and an aesthetic of reclamation.
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Not all that long ago, before Montauk became a hot-spot for summer party-seekers, the hamlet on the easternmost tip of Long Island was defined by its laid-back motels, family-run restaurants, wide, empty beaches and a shabby charm that was anything but chic.
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It was a far cry from my memories of Lewisham High Street, where more than three decades earlier I'd go shopping in mainly shabby stores for things like shampoo and dental floss, returning to my dreary dorm in time for the bell summoning us to tea.
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In the context of Japan's highly politicized and divisive battles over the wartime past, the emperor's words and actions are carefully scrutinized and parsed because he has not-so-subtly repudiated rightwingers who want to revise the Constitution, and aim to rehabilitate Japan's shabby wartime past.
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Another resident worried that the streetcar, proposed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, in his State of the City address last month, might further drive up housing prices and threaten the shabby charm of the district, which saw its first traffic light installed in 2006.
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Second was the world of alternative medicine and what was then still described, disparagingly, as "health food" — the shabby little pre-Whole Foods stores selling organic vegetables and carob and tofu, the chiropractic offices smelling of essential oils, the vegetarian restaurants with New Age bookstores umbilically attached.
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"Right now the building is looking terribly shabby," said Ms. Richardson, who also spoke of the idiosyncrasies of the heating system — built around cast-iron radiators — that meant she might start her work day wearing a winter jacket and end it in a sleeveless T-shirt.
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He cited the Divine Lorraine Hotel, an abandoned 1894 apartment building that was a notorious "billboard of blight" for years until the recent construction of 109 apartments and 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant space on a formerly shabby stretch of North Broad Street.
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It's safe to assume that many users are still downloading and using Google Maps, iOS's original default mapping system, but even if a small percentage of iPhone users are using Apple Maps, 2.5 million corrections out of at least 180 million iPhone users is not too shabby.
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Their tidy office, with a miniature disco ball hanging from the ceiling and a back wall painted robin's-egg blue, bore only a spiritual resemblance to the shabby set (bald pipes, brimming trash cans, broken chair) in which Sam is trapped for almost the entire play.
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"The aircraft maker is up more than 50 percent year to date, leaving the second-place performer, Apple, up 39 percent, not shabby, but in the dust, " the "Mad Money " host said, wondering why so many Wall Street professionals missed the move in the aerospace giant's stock.
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The central portion of 13, a viaduct that carries the highway up and over several busy roads and freight-train tracks, is a fitting symbol of the shabby state of so much infrastructure in the New York region, from its sputtering subway to its delay-plagued airports.
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From Scott Disick getting the full spa treatment from the comfort of his backyard patio to Channing Tatum on a date night with his wife (we've heard he's also not too shabby with the polish himself), a full spectrum of famous men are jumping aboard this self-care train.
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Yet when he seems to have hit bottom, Richie glimpses new inspiration not far from the shabby downtown Manhattan intersection where he has gone to buy cocaine: a raucous rock concert at the Mercer Arts Center, being played by an up-and-coming band called New York Dolls.
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She's also a top producer at Hard News, skinnier than she's ever been (this series' fixation on Bridget's weight remains one of its most obnoxious qualities), and living in a nicely updated version of her shabby-chic London flat, which has to have quintupled in value since 2001.
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First their focus was on a mix of petit bourgeois odds and ends like napkins, tea towels, and scarves; but it was their antique-y microflorals, patchwork, and "shabby chic" upholstery-minded calicos, constructed into modest puffed-sleeved, long-sleeved dresses, that catapulted the fledgling label to stardom.
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Wright kept hitting like that even after ownership built a ballpark that crippled his power, even after Matt Cain beaned him and Ike Davis stomped on his foot and the team's stars left him alone to carry an increasingly strapped and shabby franchise on an increasingly broken back.
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After coming to America, seeing more of its shabby auditoriums and gyms than any HBO-signed fighter today, after returning to Russia only to become involved in a ghastly tragedy, Sergey Kovalev finally landed a promoter—Main Events, the company run one of first ladies of boxing, Kathy Duva.
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In an untitled cluster of three from 2012, perhaps a riff on the Holy Family, a child whose soft joints and frayed exterior recall a rag doll's is crouching to wipe the face of a baby, while an older child, also shabby and scruffy, stands before a wash basin.
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Readers of Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's last novel, "The War That Saved My Life," will already be familiar with the terrible particulars of Ada Smith's childhood: her abusive mother, her captivity in a single shabby room in London during World War II, her painful clubfoot and its associated shame.
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I would try on my findings in the shabby Loehmann's communal dressing rooms, where women of all shapes and sizes and backgrounds competed for mirror space, and I would delight in getting a Loehmann's receipt that would show me exactly how much money I'd saved off the retail price.
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"Her Portmanteau," named for the shabby red valise Iniabasi carries, but also suggesting the heavy load of grievance she bears, is a far more conventional work than "Sojourners"; it takes place almost entirely on a single set (Adiagha's cozy Inwood apartment) over the course of a continuous 105 minutes.
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Adapting T. C. Boyle's 1984 novel, "Budding Prospects: A Pastoral," Mr. Zwigoff (who directed the pilot and wrote it with his wife, Melissa Axelrod) recreates with loving care the mid-80s, pre-internet Mission District of San Francisco, just beginning its long trip from shabby to chic to overrun.
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A poor man with much on his shoulders can go staggering into this shabby tavern, quench his thirst and hunger with humble drinks and food, while licking his wounds, singing rebellions, cursing abstract yet real enemies, weighing mistresses, dissecting his wife's character, and tearing up for his poor mother.
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Travel is accompanied by vistas that range from whimsical (like a shabby circus stretched across several small planetoids, like The Little Prince meets Carnivale) to the disturbing (a poisoned mechanical sun twisting in the center of a sea of inexplicable broken glass) and a sparse, atmospheric musical score.
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Fast-forward a few years, and it's probably Estée Lauder Pleasures — in all its floral, effervescent glory — or the bright, warm Kenzo Flower that takes pride of place atop the shabby dresser in your dorm room, a spritz of each encapsulating everything from sneaking into bars to new relationships and beyond.
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While no one could have ever imagined in the early aughts that it would be Paris Hilton's assistant and protégé Kim Kardashian who had the breakout A-list career of the millennium, the woman who single-handedly invented the whole being famous for being famous thing isn't doing too shabby herself.
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So now, their mental scores settled, they did what they would have normally done—went to Nizamuddin, a rich neighborhood; found a shabby car orphaned outside a fancy house; stole the petrol cap; had the key made (at a different shop), and returned the next day and drove it away.
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Jesse hopes that speaking the Good Word will salvage his own faith as much as it well help his parishioners, and with wife beaters and redneck cops filling the pews, he's got a shabby flock to tend to — one that he suddenly finds he has a supernatural ability to influence.
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The 30th anniversary of the team's 803 championship is an ongoing reminder of both how good the Mets had it then and how shabby and threadbare they've often seemed since, and not just on those days this season when they've had both Eric Campbell and Ty Kelly in the starting lineup.
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Not too shabby, but all of that comes with a $649 price tag, which marks a $100 premium over the KeyOne, which should make this a bit of a tougher pill to swallow for what to many no doubt still feels like a bit of a novelty in the smartphone category.
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Class of Service: Economy The Bag: First-class fliers get Jaguar-branded bags, and the Parisian fashion house Cerruti is behind the ones in business, but the pickings are far from shabby for economy passengers: The airline teamed with two upscale brands, Chopard and Institut Karite, to design the kits.
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And Lester as the deceitful Nick Johnson doesn't put in too shabby a showing either, playing a significant part in positioning Undercover as a worthy contender for one of 2016's most gripping dramas (so far)—and not just because of the cheeky glimpse of his arse in an early episode.
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Its location, in the Bandra-Kurla Complex, a business district studded with glossy office towers, is bland, but first impressions dissipated once I stepped into what might have been the shabby-chic lair of an eccentric Portuguese-Goan grandmother: cane chairs, tiled walls, dishes as décor, blue-painted pillars, lace curtains.
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His annual journey to the United States was a routine shared by many in the shabby city of Tlapacoyan, about 190 miles east of Mexico City in the hills of Veracruz state, which supplies two-thirds or more of the 7,23 foreign workers hired by America's amusement sector each year.
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But even as they protest regional issues, like pension reform in France, corruption in Lebanon, inequality and shabby social services in Chile, and Chinese state control in Hong Kong, protesters have leveraged catchy hashtags and viral images on social media to promote a kind of global solidarity against the state.
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When they got to Lansing the sun still wasn't up, and the heavy government buildings were straining to materialize out of the dark, their white limestone walls emitting an eerie iridescence while a few sad orphaned houses stood nearby, shabby and out of place, shedding shingles and curlicues of lead paint.
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In 1986, Coretta Scott King remarked in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that as U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Alabama, Sessions engaged in a "shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters" when he unsuccessfully prosecuted "the Marion three," who were black civil rights activists in rural Alabama.
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Though Madonna's full length feature film Body of Evidence, released that same year, was a shabby Basic Instinct knock-off, the inspiration for "Bad Girl" was more pedigreed, drawing on Looking For Mr. Goodbar for its sex-crime storyline and Wings of Desire as a reference for Christopher Walken's soft-shoeing guardian angel.
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But when June meets a couple of Econopeople this week, we see that in the show's Gilead, the Econowives are just Wives, but poorer: They live in shabby, cramped apartments, under surveillance, and if they are fertile, Gilead threatens them with the specter of the Handmaid's robes if they fail to fall in line.
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Sergey Rogulov, a 39-year-old driver from St. Petersburg, said he liked the shabby Stalin-era interiors — "it is like time travel back to the U.S.S.R." — but he mostly came for the weather and budget prices, which are lower than in foreign resorts and even those in nearby Sochi or Russian-ruled Crimea.
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Most of it was petty, bumbling, and shabby: favoritism and graft, wheeling and dealing, mainly done not by the President but by the men around him, not least the notorious Grant staffer and Whiskey Ring swindler Orville Babcock, whom Grant could never bring himself to fire but instead rusticated by appointing him Inspector of Lighthouses.
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In a way, the movie is a grimly unwhimsical version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," with Ms. Schneider's character wending her way through a series of abortive rehearsals, shabby hotel rooms and glum soirées (one including a 21913-millimeter projection of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"), trying to comprehend what the adults around her are up to.
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At the fair's V.I.P. opening last Wednesday inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, one big-ticket sale came early at the Gagosian Gallery's booth as a couple dressed in shabby chic — complete with a military-style field jacket for the gentleman — snapped up a 2180 untitled abstract painting by Sam Francis for $6.5 million.
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The narrator of Klam's (a little too) cleverly named novel is a 42-year-old illustrator for a liberal newsmagazine — think The Atlantic or The Nation, or any other periodical you'd find on the coffee table at the house of a well-heeled progressive's shabby chic home — and a former underground cartoonist of slight renown.
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