In the case of Alexander's, he used a video camera to record how empty its Brooklyn malls were.

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General Growth, however, has a fine record of filling empty space and figuring out novel ways to squeeze more out of space that's already rented.

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Liberal Democrat universities spokesman Stephen Williams said the government's target to get half of young people into university was proving to be "empty rhetoric" and that record numbers of bright young people would be turned away this summer.

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But his success in 1996 in getting Celso Pitta, his nominee, elected mayor in his stead boomeranged: having bequeathed him an empty treasury, Mr Maluf has felt compelled to apologise for Mr Pitta's poor record.

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The local markets are floundering around at 10 to 20 year price lows (depending on the market) with an abundance of empty properties (18.4 million vacant homes, reported CNBC earlier this week) and more record-breaking foreclosure rates on the 2011 horizon.

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