It was eerily vacant, so close to the place where moments earlier children had played.

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So, with few vacant homes and few new homes under construction we would expect this inventory decline to be chocked off by a decline in demand.

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Research by the American-Statesman shows that nearly two dozen county and private lockups are now vacant or almost so, as are thousands of bunks in state adult and juvenile prisons.

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This would be a straightforward way to redirect capital out of bad investments and eye sores like dead-end malls, empty stores, and vacant factories, so that the capital can be redeployed into our new asset-light economy.

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In other words, they could hop off an occupied channel and onto a vacant one before causing so much as a blip on television sets in the area.

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Essentially, as a result of the real estate market crash and the increase in foreclosures, some newer suburban areas were left with so few residents that many homes sit vacant and the neighborhoods have fallen into disrepair.

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So these funds will be used to buy up and rehabilitate vacant and foreclosed homes and resell those homes with affordable mortgages -- and to provide mortgage assistance and rehabilitation loans for low-income and middle-income families.

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And so thousands of migrants simply ignored the law and settled illegally on vacant land.

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And there were always a few vacant booths and aisles around the edges of the show, so it never looked full, even with a large attendance.

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Not so long ago, 20% of the town's 85 shops were vacant.

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So Project Rebuild connects the two by helping the private sector put construction workers to work rehabilitating vacant or abandoned homes and businesses all across the country.

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So, I began studying maps of my inner city neighborhood and realized that many of the vacant historic buildings in my community were built along street car lines that traversed the city.

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These pairs are difficult to break up, so any intruding electron, unable to displace an incumbent from a pair, must occupy a higher, vacant energy level within the superconductor in order to stay put.

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