Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mismanagement and an absence of leadership and dispirited over a lack of recognition. Its acting leader is dogged by charges of corruption. Paint is literally peeling off the walls, and the locker room showers, like many things at the 29 Garden St. headquarters, are in a state of disrepair...
...where Cruise and his wife walk with the Quins near the beginning of the movie. Beale is widely known as the "birthplace of the blues;" in the era before integration, it was the place where Black musicians went to play incredible music in smoky dives. After falling into disrepair, it was refurbished by the city in the early '80s, and after a slow start, managed to catch on. Today it's filled with funky restaurants, offbeat stores and music joints (such as B.B. King's). On spring and summer nights, Beale becomes packed with people of all types strolling around...
Some areas of the current plant appeared to be in disrepair on a recent tour, with standing water underneath electrical wires, peeling paint and leaking ceilings...
Barnes says many of the pipes which supply water to homes and businesses are in disrepair and need to be replaced or renovated, because the majority of the pipes were installed between...
...cream-colored skin. "She called me a whore," said the older girl. With agonizing patience, Pannell unravels the dispute. The girls are friends. The day before, the older girl invited her friend home for the first time. There the younger child saw her friend's house was in disrepair, that the outside door was battered and punctured by what she thought were bullet holes. At school the next day she told friends about the house and the broken door. The older girl, insulted and hurt, fired back that at least her mother had a house and wasn't so poor...