Word: blight
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...bells still ring in Houston; Montreal is dark with blight...
...have begun to intrude. They show thick plumes of exhaust spilling from new oil refineries; bubbling, dark cesspools of untreated wastes only a hop away from beaches jammed by tourists; mountainsides scarred by open-pit mining and hardscrabble agricultural plots. The vacation paradise now faces the spread of environmental blight at an alarming rate...
...Sandy blight, n.: an inflammation of the tear ducts caused by living beyond the black stump...
Virtually every corner of Mexico's diverse geography is touched by the economic blight. In the northern Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental mountains, which is the storehouse for an array of mineral wealth, mining production has declined by 10%. Mexico's manufacturing industries and light assembly plants, many of them concentrated in the smog belt that envelops Mexico City, are wilting. Because of foreign-exchange controls imposed last September, the dollars necessary to buy imported raw materials and spare parts are not available. About 36,000 trucks and 25,000 buses are stuck on Mexican assembly...
Harvard takes to the ice again in the un-measurably Triendlier confines of Blight Center Wednesday night against Brown...