Home again.KB Home is teaming up with Hollywood-based Lock and Key Productions for "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," investing in a major project to reap the rewards of name recognition. The L.A.-based homebuilder hired swarms of contractors to tear down to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down. - Shak. See also: Tear and rebuild a home in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. for the reality show, which airs Dec. 12 on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. . The home will benefit Patricia Broadbent, a single mother of seven children--six of whom are adopted, including three with AIDs. Broadbent was recently diagnosed with lung cancer lung cancer, cancer that originates in the tissues of the lungs. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States in both men and women. Like other cancers, lung cancer occurs after repeated insults to the genetic material of the cell. . KB Home Chairman and Chief Executive Bruce Karatz makes an appearance on the show, telling Broadbent that KB covered the costs of replacing her 40-year-old home with a brand new house and an added pool. In exchange for taking over the mortgage, new taxes, utilities, maintenance of the landscape and pool and housekeeping--along with landscaping all of the yards on the street and cul-de-sac where Broadbent lives--KB hopes to get some advertising benefit. |
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