Word: decays
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...France - were all industrial behemoths of the 19th century. Belfast and Bremen thrived through shipbuilding. Many of the world's knives, blades and cutlery came from Sheffield. Turin was famous for its car manufacturer Fiat. But from the 1970s onward, fortunes plummeted. As traditional industries folded, inner-city decay and suburban sprawl took hold, turning off prospective investors and keeping residents from putting down roots...
...consciously appropriate laughter that followed suggested that the audience consisted of hipsters, socialites, Ivy grads and an assortment of other caricatures out of the East Coast intellectual elite. For a moment, I found it strange that representatives of the group supposedly ushering in the United States’ moral decay and loss of traditional values would come together to watch a movie about football, America’s rough and tumble answer to that wimpy game where scrawny European boys chase after each other in short-shorts kicking a ball around...
Peat bogs—pools of dead plant material that does not decay due to the cold, wet environment—facilitate a build-up of undecomposed carbon...
...information available about the housing, business, and social needs of cities, as in Ed Logue’s plans for downtown New Haven. Despite the best intentions of these planners, though, the urban renewal era is widely considered a failure, and it did very little to stop the dramatic decay of cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Why? Largely because of cheap land and interstate highway access to new suburban communities. In other words, non-urban alternatives dictated an urban problem...
...forget the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or the rise of China, the bluster of boom-and-bust Russia, the murky threat of Iran and the accelerating decay of Pakistan. Between the economic crisis at home and the geopolitical cauldron abroad, the new President's agenda will be largely predetermined. He might wish he could shrug off this dismal inheritance and devote himself to the shiny projects cataloged on his campaign website - but that's beyond his power...