Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each, in his separate way, Drinks to a bygone day. The Explorer, in truth, Was part of our youth, And not only orbits decay...
...little satellite. Gradually slowed down by the braking effect of the upper atmosphere, Explorer I drifted steadily and almost imperceptibly downward. Last week, after more than half a million revolutions around the earth, it perished over the Pacific in the fiery heat of re-entry-a victim of orbital decay...
...study, which was financed by the American Association of Chocolate Manufacturers and the National Dairy Council, is the first to examine the relationship between chocolate milk containing sugar and dental decay...
Poverty and discrimination condemn blacks to bad housing. Less obvious factors include the decay of public housing (50.8% occupied by blacks) and maladroit federal programs, such as urban renewal and highway building, which razed 800,000 city units between 1949 and 1967. The Government has also speeded the white exodus from cities. Since World War II, it has financed only 800,000 urban units, while insuring the financing of 10 million suburban homes. Fortunately, the Federal Housing Administration has begun to change this pattern. More than 50% of FHA's mortgage insuring activity has lately been shifted to properties...
...urban ills: crime, shifting populations, economic squeeze and the American propensity to waste. Nearly all of today's abandoned houses are in ghettos or neighborhoods in transition as the white population departs. But it is far too simplistic to blame only the influx of black families for the decay and abandonments. Most slum neighborhoods were near-slums long before their white residents moved away...