Word: decay
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...loss, with a profound perception of the evanescence of things, analogous to Piet's fear of death. It is this that drives Updike to greater and greater feats of observation. Everything, all the world's shapes and colors, must be preserved in words, as in amber, against its eventual decay and disappearance...
Situated in Morningside Heights at the edge of Harlem, Columbia is an academic enclave surrounded by poverty and decay. Its students, a large number of them subway commuters, are both liberal and well integrated. But the school itself, while earnestly trying to deal with the urban ills in its neighborhood, has fallen far short of the expectations of either its students or its neighbors...
When the College building began to show signs of decay, the English students moved out. Eventually--no repairs were made--the presses also had to be removed. The Corporation finally offered 5 pounds to anyone who would pull the building down, but there were no takers...
While children in Massachusetts suffer from six times more tooth decay than children in Vietnam, the battle over fluoridation rages...
Anti-fluoridation groups don't deny that fluoride decreases tooth decay. They can't; a study of six fluoridated communities by the Massachusetts Division of Dental Health snowed an average reduction of decay of 62 per cent and in some cases as much as 80 per cent. What they do claim, however, is that the long-range effects have not been properly studied. But in the 20 years since water was first fluoridated there has been no conclusive evidence of any ill effects...