Besides beautifying company balance sheets, this is encouraging consumers to borrow, to buy cars, for example, and build houses.

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Mr Hugin does not expect liquidity to increase much, because with the financial year coming to an end, investors will concentrate on beautifying their portfolios.

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Since yarn does not damage property in the same way spray paint might, yarn bombers see their art as a way of reclaiming and beautifying public spaces.

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Another of Sellers's shows championed Constance Spry, the social reformer, author and florist who educated millions of British people on the art of beautifying their homes in the mid-20th century.

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The activities focused mainly on beautifying several eroded walls.

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They also become better students, they become better leaders, and they become better citizens, enriching not just themselves but their communities, teaching younger children the skills that they've learned, beautifying neighborhoods with murals and lifting their communities with their performances.

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You're just beautifying the city.

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My father often spoke of a doctor cousin who, having decided to try his hand at beautifying noses, did a few teenagers successfully and then, after unwrapping the bandages of an older patient, watched in horror as the tip of the gorgeous new sniffer slowly began to droop toward the patient's chin.

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