Word: blight
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...stands out on a grotty housing estate littered with boarded-up properties. Life on the estate has improved in recent years, he says - still sporting the luminous vest from one of the two truck driving jobs he holds down to meet his mortgage payments - although petty crime remains a blight. The windows of his neighbor's new car were smashed recently. "You can't leave anything inside," Calado says. "Even a GPB 3 pair of sunglasses...
...Back at the ExCel center, official posters tacked near its entrances tempt passers by with the bold words "STABILITY, GROWTH, JOBS". But for anyone looking for a way out of the blight, it's another disappointment. The local footbridge to the center will be shut during the meeting of the world's most powerful. Once again, Canning Town will find itself cut off from what lies beyond...
...ever wanted to throw a party for your local coal plant, this will be your chance.) But Earth Hour is a symbolic act, and as WWF's Roberts points out, "history is littered with symbolic acts that became tipping points." (Read "Solar Power: Eco-Friendly or Environmental Blight...
...Some neighborhood residents question the category’s legitimacy, calling it an attempt to disguise the true blight of vacancy in Allston...
...construction project continue, and that the university’s administration meet with the Boston Redevelopment Authority within 60 days. At these proposed meetings, Menino expects the university to divulge information about the master plan for Allston development and cooperate with the city to alleviate the “blight to the neighborhood” caused by vacant lots—purchased and now left empty by Harvard...