Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while polling has inflated people's belief in the power of their opinions, the mechanism for making those opinions felt--voting--has fallen into disrepair. The percentage of Americans who vote in midterm elections is particularly low. It has been dropping for decades, and some analysts predict that this November it will fall to a record-setting...
Despite being Harvard's technological Mecca, computers on the main floor are overused and in disrepair. The screens reek faintly of Chick-fila...
After it became apparent that the church tower's advanced state of disrepair was a serious safety hazard, the church undertook renovations costing about $500,000. Over the course of the repairs, the church decided to make cosmetic changes as well as structural repairs...
...Miserables After 10 years on Broadway, the Alain Boublil-Claude-Michel Schonberg musical had fallen into serious disrepair. So directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird became their own show doctors, replacing much of the cast and giving the production a thorough overhaul. Mon Dieu! Les Miz is back and as rousing as ever. Now, about Miss Saigon...
...Though it's too soon to tell whether most voucher-supported students perform better academically in a private school, no one needs a study to show that most private schools are safer and more orderly. For inner-city parents, vouchers can represent salvation from a system in perpetual disrepair, even if they offer just a fraction of poor children a way into the lifeboat of private schooling...