Word: decrepit
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...more than free beer or free shrinks or free As, the one change that might shake up our unhappy deadlock could be if we could all set aside three months for uselessness. Years of cubicled summers stretch out from graduation day to the day we are too dejected or decrepit to remain in them any longer; it may as well be now that we follow a whim, refuse a job, or ignore a class...
...with the cash now that I finally have control over it instead of Leona. I'm not going to be like her--I won't be getting my face stretched out like I'm in the movie Brazil, or scooping up gaudy chandeliers and collectible figurines at some decrepit store on the Upper East Side at 75% off because I actually believe it's "going out of business." But seriously, I loved the woman...
...burst pipe in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday stirred the anxieties of New Yorkers who have experienced plenty of them since 9/11. But given the decrepit state of the country's urban infrastructure, the debacle could very well have been at a bridge in Boston or a sewer in Philadelphia. Indeed, the Manhattan steam-pipe geyser might be compared to the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the 2003 blackout of the Eastern Seaboard: accidents and catastrophes that might have been prevented with the right funding and political priorities...
...growing global network is Guinea-Bissau. The fifth poorest country in the world was perfectly suited to playing a key role in the coke trade. The average person in this country of 1.6 million people earns about $720 a year and dies at 45. The capital, Bissau, is a decrepit relic on which the government has not slapped a lick of paint since the Portuguese colonials decamped in the 1970s. There are few phone lines and almost no electricity. Even the President's office building has a generator roaring outside. The judicial police headquarters has no working communications radio, computer...
...despite the country’s instability and weak infrastructure, Foote traveled throughout Baghdad, hoping to learn anything he could to improve the country’s decrepit conditions...