Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...examples of St. Louis' physical deterioration is the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project, built by the Federal Government in the mid-1950s at a cost of $21.5 million. The high-rise complex was dynamited by the city in the early 1970s after becoming a cesspool of crime and decay. Today, buffalo grass has reclaimed the 55-acre site...
Howard Hughes died batty and beset by phantoms, and all of us learned valuable lessons from his downfall: do not let your fingernails grow to excess, do not inherit too much money, do not fly too high. The man's decay was so pathetic and so gaudy that it is difficult now even for those with a good grip on middle age to remember that once he was a hero. A strange hero, certainly, but a real one; a test pilot of impressive courage and a gifted, self-taught aircraft designer at a time when aviation was the century...
...unrelated. Urban planners and a growing number of politicians are worried about the bridges and byways, streets and sewers that make up the infrastructure of the U.S. economy. After decades of neglect by all levels of government much of that foundation is now in an advanced state of decay...
...cost of reversing this kind of urban decay is too high for many city treasuries. Officials in New Orleans believe that it would take $200 million to repair the city's crumbling streets, but only $32 million is now available for the job. One estimate of the cost of modernizing Baltimore's sewer system comes to $1,880 for every man, woman and child in the city...
...eyes. With his hairline receding and the lines of his face hardening now into some sort of death mask. Nicholson doesn't try to play Chambers as the twenty-three year old punk Cain envisioned. Instead he slouches around like a bored satyr. He seems to revel in his decay, in his unnerving ability to play an utterly reptilian Don Juan...