Word: decay
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...Angeles riots have cast a spotlight on the problems of poverty and urban decay. But long before that explosion, the recession put welfare high on the political agenda by swelling public-assistance rolls with legions of unemployed workers. Around 4.7 million households, or 13.6 million individuals, are receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the main cash-assistance program. That's an increase of 24% in the past two years. The number of food-stamp recipients shot up from 20.9 million in October 1990 to 24.2 million a year later. The total cost of these two programs alone...
...blacks he needs to turn out in droves. When he turns back to recapture them, we'll hit him for supporting the conventional Democratic response of throwing money at the problems. The people who vote, the middle- class swing voters, hear 'city' as a code word for blacks and decay, for everything they've run to the suburbs to avoid. They're upset with the King verdict, sure, but they're more upset about their being the next white victim when they drive through the areas they've mortgaged their lives to escape from...
...have fed animals in our labs vitamin E and have found that they have fewer lung lesions and that they live longer." Menzel suggests that priming children with doses of antioxidants could protect them against lung disease as adults, much the way fluoridated water protects them against tooth decay...
...rendered only in French. Esprit de corps. Joie de vivre. Cherchez la femme. Croissant. They don't really work in translation. And that is true of fin de siecle. "End of the century" sounds flat and clunky. It doesn't carry the suggestion conveyed by the original of hectic decay and a sort of perfumed dying fall...
...year 2009, we find the world in an advanced state of decay, due to nuclear waste, the lack of an ozone layer, and "that ten year depression...