Word: decayed
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...piece identifies a myriad of problems that currently beset Yale--including physical decay of the campus buildings and facilities, the deadly urban environment of New Haven and a faculty that is "gradually but surely losing its luster...
...crooks control everything, and this one [Clinton] is no different. The country is in decay. There's not affordable housing, people can't buy clothes--these are basic human rights. The U.S. claims that China violated human rights but they violate them here by depriving people of the right to live with dignity. People don't have houses, jobs, health care. People have a right to live with dignity...
Good-old-days virtue . . . imminent decay. But that may be a misleading distinction -- an artificial paradigm that at its worst produces false conflicts, as between a kind of droolingly permissive liberalism and a family- values fanaticism...
...problem poses a special danger because of the economy's dependence on tourism and conventions. They are the principal industries left in town. "If crime begins scaring off visitors, it could kill the golden goose," warns Loyola University political scientist Ed Renwick. An equal concern is that crime and decay are impeding the effort to attract new business, which is vitally needed to replace thousands of energy-industry jobs lost in the 1980s oil bust...
Myra Carter caps a long career with a dazzling portrait of a dowager, whom she plays both in full command of her gilded domain and at the breaking point of senile decay. Marian Seldes, who won a 1967 Tony Award in Albee's A Delicate Balance, has never been better as a protective but peevish nurse- companion in the first act and the dowager herself in the second, which is a fantasy conversation among embodiments of the same woman at three stages of life. Jordan Baker, who plays a young lawyer and then the dowager at a callow 26, looks...