Word: decrepit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Britannia rules an empire on which the sun never sets. And Western powers rule almost every other part of the world. Japan emulates Europe and the U.S. and joins Britain, Russia, France and Germany in contemplating the dismemberment of the decrepit Chinese Empire. Nationalism sows the seeds of two world wars...
...McCain said he would push to cut off funding from the International Monetary Fund to Russia if the former communist nation does not relent in its military campaign in Chechnya, calling Russian President Boris Yeltsin a "decrepit president...
Surprisingly, he didn't show the most passion about his legislative successes but about the simple accomplishment of securing funds and support to renovate the decrepit Magazine Beach park...
...communist system, after all, may be riddled with problems that make its collapse inevitable, but unemployment has never been one of them. Mao Zedong's promise of the "iron rice bowl" was the traditional communist guarantee of full employment. However decrepit the economy might be, everyone would always have a job, no matter how economically redundant. You pretend to work and we pretend to pay you. And yet on Friday, even as portraits of Mao were driven through the streets of Beijing, 100 million Chinese face the prospect of joblessness with no social safety...
...concerns that have long remained neglected. First-year dormitories need better lighting. As every year passes the need for a true student center with space for group offices and meetings is ever more evident. And it certainly would be nice to see a 175-foot sky crane above our decrepit excuse for an athletic center...