Word: decrepit
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Fifteen years ago, the 3.2-acre site of Harborplace was part of a 250-acre wasteland of rotting wharves, markets, warehouses and railroad yards, the worst of Baltimore's then decrepit downtown. Its transformation into the commercial and social centerpiece of the Inner Harbor and the energizing jolt it has sent through the entire city are the result of $20 million worth of construction, plus the ideas and energy of an affable Marylander named James Wilson Rouse...
Basketball has long been a wasteland at Harvard, but those days seem emphatically over. Crippled by the worst facility this side of Moskva--the ancient and decrepit Indoor Athletic Building--the hoopsters could not convince any serious ballplayers to spend four years here. But the team has a new arena under construction. Briggs Cage, a few good recruiting years under its belt, and a first-ever Ivy championship within reach. Look for coach Frank McLaughlin (the Bronx's Ambassador to Harvard) and his squad to give traditional powers Penn and Princeton a run for the laurels this year...
...years since he assumed office, Baltimore has blossomed. The once dingy downtown of the nation's ninth largest city (pop. 783,300) gleams with the glass, steel and fountains of Charles Center, a $175 million commercial complex. The 240 acres surrounding the city's formerly decrepit docks now feature a 33-story World Trade Center, a science museum and Harborplace, a stylish arcade of restaurants and emporiums developed by James Rouse, creator of Boston's Quincy Market. A $21.5 million aquarium containing more than 5,000 specimens will open in September. As the city's crumbling...
...ruin due to age and deterioration. Heather E. Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries, says "it's remarkable the way Hilles and Lamont have been built to last." While the undergraduate libraries and Widener do not face the same immediate dangers to their structures as in some decrepit Houses and buildings, the librarians say there are potential problems with the preservation of books...
Still, Fort Chaffee is scheduled to be emptied of Cubans by August. There is no timetable for getting 1,766 Cubans out of the decrepit Atlanta federal penitentiary. They and 50 compatriots in other U.S. prisons have criminal records ranging from simple theft (473 cases) to murder (121). "We've got some good Cubans here," says Mike Trominski, the Atlanta prison's ranking immigration official. "We have others we never want to hit the streets...