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...case the squabbling prompted voters two years later to pick one party to control both branches. The sad part is that this year the electorate felt compelled to continue the split in the apparent belief that it was as plausible as any other solution offered by our aging, even decrepit two-party system. Indeed, growing disillusionment with the two main political parties over the past three decades has been pointing toward exactly what came to pass on Election Day 1996. Our predicament raises several serious questions...
...have no idea how old and decrepit this building is," said Assistant Manager Sheldon E. Cooperman. "It should have been torn down long...
Since its opening in 1990, the shopping complex has given the once-decrepit area an "accessible feeling," Boothe says...
...real cost to themselves. Affluent blacks get the assurance that their children will learn to get along in the white world in which they will someday compete and the status that goes with sending them to a prestigious school. Most poor black children, meanwhile, are stuck in decrepit ghetto classrooms...
...despair of ways to keep students in school, to raise falling test scores and battle drugs, alcohol and teenage pregnancy, it is indeed a luxury to be able to treat teenagers as pawns in a church and state battle. Most schools are too worried about increasing class sizes and decrepit buildings to do that. But in Utah, they have the time and the power to wage a battle...