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Ten years after declaring bankruptcy, Motor City is starting to bounce back
...And Boots has a lot of shops — 1,900, after the latest round of closures — which need staffing and sprucing up....
...Watchmakers, meanwhile, are busy sprucing up their presence in traditional hubs....
...The arrival of world leaders for a high-profile summit earlier this month prompted the city to jump into action, hosing down its streets and sprucing up neglected downtown neighbourhoods....
...Lockdowns kept people indoors, focused on sprucing up their homes. Business has become tougher as shoppers defer spending on big-ticket items....
...Even so, a Shadow sometimes needs a little sprucing. “She’s just been ‘done up’,” adds Moss. “She was in pretty good driving order, but looking a little tired....
...If it hasn’t been redecorated over the past couple of years, it is worth sprucing it up to ensure its presentation is in keeping with the asking price....
...But it remains an open question as to whether the traditional PE playbook of sprucing up a business and cashing out after five-to-ten years will work across the sporting world....
...Still, the transformation of women dressed for a party, as a rule, throws the modest sprucing-up undertaken by men into deep shade. This is as obvious as it is regrettable....
...Another tip is to use an electric debobbler — brilliant for sprucing up a lacklustre coat, and a gentle steam helps too....
...A painting by Vincent van Gogh on show at Tefaf Maastricht will reveal its secrets when restorers start researching and sprucing up the picture later this year....
...The Finnish start-up recently raised €108mn in funding from investors, and is part of a growing ecosystem of companies sprucing up second-hand goods....
...Stuck inside more than usual, Americans spent their time sprucing up their homes and gardens, fuelling sales of everything from paint to patio furniture....
...Stuck at home, we started buying sporting equipment and sprucing up our properties....
...Those who have sat in Whitehall meetings have despaired at the lack of imagination beyond centrally controlled funding for bus routes and railways, and what looks suspiciously like a pork-barrel fund for sprucing...
...The Business Improvement Districts scheme, where companies pay a levy to help their local area, is sprucing up many towns with plants and financing community gardens for residents to grow their own produce...
...Collectors of this cherishable series bow to no one in their admiration for Fowler’s sprucing up of the tropes of the golden age of British crime fiction, set down in a vaguely surreal modern setting....
...That would cover, say, the $9.5bn payment into the Innovation and Technology Fund — the government’s faltering bid to stimulate a homegrown Silicon Valley — and sprucing up country parks, football pitches...
...Depressingly, the debate often ends up either endorsing the payment of a universal basic income to every citizen; or shoving a bit of money towards sprucing up town centres....
...At a time of crisis, sprucing up homes and gardens could boost both the retail industry and mental health. Lex coronavirus advice exchange. We invite Lex readers to swap advice, queries and opinions....
...It’s a sector that’s consolidating, but hopefully the actions we have taken today make the point that management is very much focused on turning this business around not just sprucing it up.”...
...A lot of people said WeWork was an overvalued property group, whose business model of taking long-term leases, sprucing them up and reletting them on a short-term basis was flawed....
...BT is revamping itself as a ‘national champion’, sprucing up EE stores and sticking its brand on them too....
...Since the Competition and Markets Authority blocked its proposed takeover of smaller rival Asda, Sainsbury’s has focused on reducing debt, sprucing up some stores and improving its price competitiveness...
...Following a wave of funding into Indian start-ups in recent years, technology-driven lodging group Oyo Rooms has put foreign growth at the heart of its plans, rolling out an unusual model based on sprucing...
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