Word: decay
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West spoke of the dangers of the current period of "transition," where he said the growth of transnational corporations have contributed to the decay of democratic institutions which could serve as controls on wealthy and powerful elites...
...lack of modernized climate control systems has led to significant book decay. Nearly three out of four of Harvard's folios dating from 1800 to 1950 were declared "imbrittled," in a recent sample survey...
Americans do not like atheists. They often make wild and unsupportable claims, like "atheists can't have a morality" or "atheism leads to degeneracy." Ridiculously, atheism has been blamed for everything from the French Revolution to society's supposed decay of values, interestingly purported in the midst of a resurgence of religion in America...
...Decay has set in," Parker said. "This is aproblem dealing with our educational culture andthe quality of the classroom...
Gene G. Ketelhohn, Cabot House Superintendent, speculated that natural factors might be responsible for the pipe's decay...