Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homes now belong to those who live in them, and 20% of adult Britons own stock shares, up from just 7% in 1979. There is a price for this, of course, and Britain pays it in the form of inflation, currently at 10.9%; unemployment, at 6% and rising; and disrepair in the social-safety net that Labour had so carefully woven. Roads and railways are showing signs of neglect, homelessness has visibly increased, and Thatcher's critics charge that her kind of individualism implies greed and selfishness...
...that authorities have created a health risk -- and caused untold suffering and humiliation to the city's 90,000 homeless -- by failing to provide enough clean and safe public toilets. The center found that most of the park and subway rest rooms it surveyed were either closed or in disrepair...
...that beggars line the road and try to flag down the occasional passing car. The area just to the north is more prosperous, but government troops at checkpoints along Route 7 often demand money or cigarettes from travelers for permission to continue on a road that is in such disrepair as to be all but impassible anyway. To the south, west and northwest of Phnom Penh, reminders of the never ending war are abundant. Not long ago, a handful of adventuresome American tourists at the fabled Angkor Wat ruins in the northwest were startled to see an army truck speed...