Word: decrepit
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...track project, marking one of the final stages in a long-term upgrading of the University's athletic facilities that has cost more than $20 million since 1975. In that year, an athletic department study recommended more than $30 million in new facilities and renovations for the then-decrepit Soldiers Field complex...
Hence the University a present proposal, which would turn Craigie Arms into predominantly luxury housing, with only 14 subsidized low and moderate-income units. University officials have said that the building's current decrepit condition makes their plan the best plan. But when a rent board member asked Harvard's attorney how much capital the University had put into Craigie Arms since 1967, he was unable to answer. Had Harvard undertaken a long-range improvement program 16 years ago, the building would not be in the shape...
...HAVE TO APPROACH a book on leadership by Richard Nixon with a healthy does of cynicism. It is absurd, if not pathetic that probably the most mortally decrepit U.S. President ever has judged himself fit to assess such 20th century leaders Churchill De Gaulle MacArthur or Chou...
...getting along in years, you know. I find I enjoy it now, but I only started because we had a dog who needed to be taken out on walks. Also I wanted to do things with my children, who were growing up, and I found I was getting decrepit too fast...
...strikes and design problems and material shortages delayed the completion of the Briggs Cage renovations until last spring, and the Basketball team played out its season in the decrepit Indoor Athletic Building...