Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't realize that cities have limited tax bases, and that to pay for the services needed by the urban poor, municipalities must reach beyond city and regional boundaries. The booming economy of Reagan's Southwest is the other side of the equation of shifting industrialization that has caused decay in the Northeast and upper Midwest...
...water. Petrochemists have assembled the molecules contained in coal, oil and gas in new ways, producing compounds that do not exist in a natural state. These compounds are essential to such products as Pharmaceuticals, plastics,, insulation, textiles and food additives. But unlike many natural chemicals, most petrochemicals do not decay rapidly under the assault of such natural forces as bacteria, sun, wind and water. That puny plastic bottle once full of household bleach may well outlast the mighty pyramids...
...economic graveyard. Burdened by the U.S.'s highest energy costs, dying markets and sky-high taxes, a steady stream of shoe, textile and lumber companies closed their doors or headed to more hospitable climes in the Southeast and West. New England first suffered the symptoms of economic decay, depression and disillusionment that have now become so common in American business...
...cities, struggle constantly with tight budgets and pressing needs that keep rising faster than revenues. "In little bitty towns," says Frederic Cooper, program manager of the Mississippi Institute for Small Towns, "the entire budget might go to pay the policeman and the light bill at the town hall." Downtown decay is common place in small town America, as are shortages of housing, medical service, diversions for the young and suitable settings for the lonely aged. It is a rare small town that is not afflicted by poverty; 38% of the black inhabitants of small towns live below the poverty line...
...British have aged and mellowed their institution of poet laureate for three centuries. Some who read the effusions of the present laureate, Sir John Betjeman, think that the process is better described as decay. Two weeks agd, when the Queen Mother turned 80, Sir John released a poem of celebration: "We are your people,/ Millions of us greet you/ On this your birthday/ Mother of our Queen." This defiantly wooden psalming was merely average Betjeman. Years ago, the death of King George V inspired the young Betjeman to a soaring metaphysical conception: "Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe/ Flutter...