Word: disrepair
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...Palm did not attend the match. The Harvard contingent lost...Palm played for the Yale spikers while an undergraduate, then coached the team to a berth in the NCAA final four. The Elis finished fourth. Since then, the Yale volleyball program has declined. "The program there is in terrible disrepair," Palm says...
After three years under the spending limits imposed by Proposition 13, California is at the frontier of government retrenchment. Medical clinics for the poor are shutting down, parks are going to seed and the state's far-flung highway system is in disrepair. Despite such cutbacks, a deficit of at least $75 million in this fiscal year's state budget looks likely. But forced austerity is not universal. California's state legislators have seen fit to spare one group from the draconian reductions: themselves. While the expenditures in real dollars on social services have decreased, the money...
...Harvard was stopped when the squop came into vogue. In the 1966 Continentals, the hard-squopping Canadian Champion--Waterloo Lutheran University--decimated the Crimson. The team fell into depression and disrepair over the loss--its first ever--and soon disappeared...
Frank J. Geribo, of B&G's utilities division, called the incident a "fluke" and dismissed as "completely untrue" an account given by another Harvard worker who said the leak resulted from a faulty chlorine gas line which had been allowed to deteriorate into a dangerous state of disrepair...
Recognizing the fact that the Houses and other buildings are in disrepair, College administrators have nevertheless been limited in what they can do. Faced with a College-wide budgetary squeeze and pressure to keep annual tuition as low as possible, administrators have deferred maintainance on the Houses and buildings, doing only essential repair work. "We know we're not putting enough work into buildings, but the neglect isn't so much that any building is going to fall down," Melissa D. Gerrity, associate dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, explains...