Word: disrepair
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...building's protective landlord by leasing the building to the Institute of 1770-Hasty Pudding Club, the umbrella organization for all four affiliates. Even with this additional help, the club remains stunted by monetary woes and continues to allow the building at 12 Holyoke St. to fall further into disrepair--broken chairs in the theater, run-down wiring and dilapidated facades reveal the desperate need for renovation. Behind in payments to HPRE, the club knew Harvard would not allow the relationship to continue in this manner. "The club owed HPRE a lot of money," Associate Dean of the College David...
...declaration, McCain has always been more conversant on the arcana of foreign and military policy than the dry detail of domestic affairs. But here too there are ironies and contradictions. While accusing the Clinton Administration of allowing the military to fall into a state of perilous disrepair, McCain says he would hold defense spending to its current level or even reduce it. The list of advisers he would consult to help him formulate foreign policy--Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Brent Scowcroft--sounds almost like a board of directors for the foreign-policy establishment. He wants to maintain...
That's how Lowell got a new student-kitchen over the summer. When she came to Lowell, Eck says the kitchen was in disrepair--"It was sort of a makeshift thing that you might make in your basement when...
...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...