Word: decrepit
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...with 70 percent unemployment and no established political institutions. To rebuild the economy, Drummond reports, Preval is attempting to secure aid from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, hoping to attract manufacturing and assembly industries to employ low-skilled workers. With a crumbled infrastructure -- the capital has decrepit roads, nearly useless phones and spotty electrical service -- and a police force best prepared to direct traffic, securing credit will be difficult. Though violence continues across the country, there is a twinkle of hope: After losing the business years ago, Haiti once again is making baseballs...
...Allen re-writing his tabloid sins at an age (he'll be 60 this year) when he looks like a pensive Rumpelstiltskin; boyish roguery ill suits him. In TV revivals of Broadway farces, he plays crabby geezers: the tourist with tsuris in Don't Drink the Water, a decrepit comic in a new version of The Sunshine Boys. Yet in his films Allen is the Woody of old--or, rather, of young. To Lenny, the raw, vibrant Linda makes Amanda seem stale and shrewish. Bonham Carter (who's a radiant 29 and certainly doesn't look shrewish) must play that...
...small" may be elementary concepts, but defining them can be complex and contentious. Thus, is a company downsizing or rightsizing when it lays off employees? America's two-party system is decrepit, but what kind of chaos would a third and fourth party bring? The Federal Government is too big, but if it devolves its responsibilities to the states, local governments may not be big enough to take up the burden. The questions devolve to everyday life: I owe too much money, but if I didn't, I'd never live anything close to the American Dream, which only seems...
...team leave Oakland, Al Davis is bringing the Raiders home. The move comes only a few months after the Los Angeles Rams left for St. Louis, and leaves the country's second largest city without a pro football team. Davis, who had been unhappy with the decrepit condition of the Los Angeles Coliseum, become more concerned after the structure was damaged in the 1993 earthquake. In stepped Davis' former landlord, the Oakland Coliseum, with a $85 million stadium modernization to sweeten the pot. Fans can only hope that a return to the Bay Area may help to revive the flagging...
...Federal Government took over one of the nation's worst bureaucratic disaster areas: the Chicago Housing Authority. Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing, said his department would begin an immediate cleanup and renovation of the authority's crime-plagued, decrepit units and focus on developing long-range housing plans for the city's poor tenants...