Earlier this month, the Department of Justice initiated the purchase of the Thomson Correctional Center, a now-empty state prison facility located in Thomson, Illinois.
New York's Empire State Building, which has been derided by some in the real estate world as the "Empty State Building", has also had trouble filling out its offices.
Democrats portrayed Reichert as an ultra-conservative empty suit who mismanaged the state's largest county sheriff's office.
But states will be taking on this increased responsibility at a time when many state coffers are empty and budgets are far from balanced.
That winter, I packed a suitcase and took an empty, overheated Greyhound bus to the state mental hospital, where I trudged through blinding drifts of cold and was shown to a room in a staff dormitory.
Mr Hopkinson put the "significant rise" of demolished properties down to the government's abolition of empty property rates relief last April and the state of the market in locations where there is little or no retail demand.
Thanks to the power of the state football federations, Brazilian clubs play too many matches in state championships, often in half-empty stadiums.
Across the border in China's province of Inner Mongolia, a great amount of state-owned cashmere-processing capacity stands empty.
Several stand empty, as do at least four of the six former state juvenile prisons that were shuttered two years ago.
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The state corrections system now has more than 11, 000 empty bunks.
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They had been mismarked as empty, and ValuJet was not cleared to carry them in their full state.
Opponents of the Palestinian bid argue that it is a unilateral action that will undermine attempts to negotiate a two state solution, and that it could be little more than an empty gesture even if it succeeded, since it will hardly charge the lives of Palestinians.
Gourmet-cooking empty nesters found themselves gushing over kitchen islands topped with gleaming granite and decorated with state-of-the art cook tops and vegetable sinks.
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The effect of the industry's decline could be seen in the empty storefronts and dwindling population, said Mark Belanger, manager of the local branch of the state employment-security division.
The edifice complex that drove the builders of the Empire State Building helped fuel the bubble that burst into the Great Depression, such that the building sat practically empty for years.
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