Word: decays
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...provocative idea, nonetheless, has spawned a raft of strategies for reversing the nation's economic decay. Senator Edward Kennedy has called for an American Reindustrialization Corporation to promote new investment in business and technology. Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the Lazard Freres investment bank and chairman of New York's Municipal Assistance Corporation, advocates creation of a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, with $5 billion for loans to failing cities like New York or slumping companies like Lockheed or Chrysler. Management Expert Peter Drucker wants to accelerate the change to computer-age companies and shrink traditional blue-collar employment...
America, in turn, could never quite get over the view of Europe as a seat of moral decay and corrupt sophistication. Looking at Europe in long historical perspective, Americans today certainly still see it as the creator of a glorious civilization. They also believe that, well into the 20th century, Europe was the creator of fanatical nationalisms and the builder of a colonial system from whose legacy we all still suffer. Many Americans point out bitterly that Europe plunged the world Into two global wars, only to be rescued from their disastrous consequences by America. Looking at Europe...
According to current scientific evidence, volcanoes seem to act as escape valves has heat - apparently from the decay of radioactive materials - that has been years up within the earth since its birth billions of years ago. The earth's surface once bubbled with thousands of volcanoes. Their vapors formed the first atmosphere - a noxious brew of hydrogen, methane, ammonia and water - and set the stage for the initial stirrings of life...
...example of decadence--decay of values--in which the only proposed action is laughing at oneself. Noam Chomsky has written about precisely this, the failure of the American intelligentsia profits-before-people policies, willfully blind and/or intimidated...
They are worth infinitely more today, as many cities have begun to realize. Though only a few years ago they seemed doomed by downtown decay and the decline of the movies, some of the great palazzos that survive have found born-again splendor as performing arts centers and magnets of revitalization. At least 50 -from the Olympia in Miami to the Orpheum in Dubuque, Iowa, and Washington's Warner-have been restored to pristine glitter...