Word: disrepair
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...Palestine Liberation Organization once and for all. For the first time, Israel launched a war for essentially political reasons, not because its immediate survival was at stake but as part of a larger design to alter the distributions of power in the region. The business of peacemaking fell into disrepair. Ultimately, last December, the Israelis' repressive hand in the occupied territories stirred the Palestinians to their current fury of rebellion. Last week what the Palestinians call the intifadeh (uprising) proceeded, and the peace process did not. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir returned home from a nine-day visit...
...years, three generations of Robert Blue's family have operated a luggage store at Hollywood and Vine, along the brass-starred Walk of Fame. Lucille Ball bought her suitcases there. The neighborhood fell into disrepair in recent years, though, with homeless people camping out on trash-strewn streets. Blue's shop was looking shabby too, its window displays outmoded, its linoleum worn. But when the City of Los Angeles moved to condemn his building--not to build a school or a fire station but to make way for a glitzy $500 million private hotel and condo complex--Blue...
...that onerous set of requirements that has burdenered undergrads for a generation, will soon, finally, be extinct. But that’s of little help to you, fellow undergraduate, for you will be the victim of The Core at its worst, as, in its dying throes, it falls into disrepair, left to waste as professors turn their attention instead to bolstering the forthcoming general education requirements.Before you can graduate and properly be called an educated Harvard Man or Woman, you must complete courses in seven of the Core’s eleven academic areas (Foreign Cultures; History...
...crunch's cost is evident at installations like the Red River Army Depot in Texas, where hundreds of humvees sit in disrepair, and Fort Sam Houston, which is three months behind in its electric bills. The Army says it needs $17 billion to fix equipment worn down after five years of fighting...
...paying lip service to its promise of introducing students to international relations and comparative government. It has generally been up to the TFs to piece the fragments of the course together—with some stepping up to the plate and others simply allowing their sections to fall into disrepair. This year’s misery was compounded by the decision to institute mandatory weekly lectures in a course that previously only required all its students to convene twice per semester. The lectures were either disorganized or repetitive, appearing to occur solely for the purpose of existence...