Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trucks and vans available to distribute supplies are in disrepair, and spare parts are scarce. There are only about 6,000 trucks in the entire country, and only a few hundred have been diverted from military...
...vestige of the days when expansive single-family dwellings stood along the exclusive stretch of Massachusetts Avenue--known then simply as North Avenue--the house fell into disrepair in the mid-1900's. Before its owner applied for a demolition permit (requiring removal from rent control) in January of 1981, the structure was home for five low-and moderate income tenants...
...that Director Elia Kazan urged upon the playwright for the Broadway production. The net effect is to retain the beefed-up dimensions of Maggie and Big Daddy from Broadway, but to leave Brick, at the end, a little more stuck in what Williams describes as a "state of spiritual disrepair...
...museum is limited by space, and most department curators say that while they are expanding, progress is very slow. Many of the departments are currently engaged in reorganizing their collections and bringing them out of disrepair. Funding for such activities comes primarily from the federal government and National Science Foundation grants, McCarthy says...
Deficits, disrepair and disarray plague public housing...