Word: decayed
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Finally, Chain O'Lakes on a cloudy afternoon--wooden stands, faded grass, none of the trimness of the other two parks. The decay is not evident, but the park is living in the past, like its inhabitants, making a respectable showing and a nice case for how it used to be, but not competing successfully in the here...
...synagogue itself, on the exterior, stunk of decay like many of the other buildings in Leningrad, but the opulence and beauty displayed inside the temple was surprising. Candles were everywhere. Ornately carved, well kept wooden benches lined the room. Painted white pillars towered throughout the room...
...efforts. Peasants, who account for 80% of the country's 1 billion or so people and who have benefited in recent years from reforms that allow them to accumulate wealth in return for higher productivity, scorned charges that their rising living standard was evidence of moral decay...
Charlotte Gardens is the project of a nonprofit local agency, the South Bronx Development Organization, which five years ago took on the burden of salvaging the neighborhood. Until recently the area was so celebrated a symbol of urban decay that Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan both traveled there to voice concern and promise federal assistance that never quite seemed to materialize. Instead, the development organization, noting the success of a few tenants' association takeovers and restorations, concluded that owner occupancy of South Bronx buildings would spur reconstruction. The first 90 homes have already been sold, more than half...
...welfare, goes almost exclusively to women heads of families. Food stamps, Medicare, and some types of Social Security are predominantly consumed by poor women, often with children. The Administration's attempt to slash these programs has thus amounted unfortunately to a cut in aid to poor women. The widespread decay of the "traditional" family which actually produced this situation belies one of Reagan's (and Phyllis Shlafly's, et. al.) main objections to the ERA--that somehow it will promote further erosion of family values and of the place of the homemaker in society. However, both of these "traditional' concepts...