Word: decay
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...Cuba is a land of dreams, it is because reality is too cruel. Ana's house is a perfect metaphor for the country crumbling around her: the whole economy is in a state of advanced decay. After more than 30 years of Soviet-style socialism, life has turned much worse during what the Cubans call the "special period," the four years since the Berlin Wall crashed and carried away the Soviet lifelines. Cuba must now fend for itself...
...current $4 trillion debt was created. These expenses created no long-term sources of wealth or improvements in public welfare. Instead, they subsidized unproductive defense jobs and massaged the middle class into voting Republican. This wasteful expense sustained an artificial prosperity while allowing serious problems, like urban decay and inadequate medical coverage, to go unresolved. It was, in fact, the cause of our current economic problems...
...reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero for our fugitive fantasy egos, Newland Archer is the patron saint of our everyday conscience, the coachman on our journey as the years dissolve into decades and the decades into decay...
...story of Arcadia is, like most Stoppard plots, hard to summarize in much less than the three hours it takes on the stage. The action in both centuries unfolds in a stately home, a symbol at once of Britain's continuity and of its decay. The 19th century story focuses on a startlingly gifted 13-year-old girl and her tutor, a seemingly shallow, smug university man a decade older. The 20th century story focuses on the present generation of the girl's landed family and on two biographers who are probing Byron's connections to the house, investigating...
...body of a woman, bloated with decay. She had a purple rose tattooed on her left wrist. Another tattoo, a cross of leaves, adorned her hip. Rifkin admitted to picking up the woman -- a prostitute, he said matter- of-factly -- in Manhattan the previous week. She got into his mother's car. They had sex. He strangled her. Now he was on his way to Republic Airport in East Farmingdale to dispose of her corpse...