Word: disrepair
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...boards. In a limited partnership with Son Walter J., 30, and Son-in-Law Roy Eisenhardt, 42, he acquired a team that was a smouldering shambles. Finley lost or traded away its talent. The farm system had gone to seed. The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum had fallen into such disrepair that the scoreboard did not always work, and functioning concession stands were hard to find. Last year the A's sold only 75 season tickets...
...York City, the cold has continued almost unabated since a sub-zero Christmas Day, and January temperatures have averaged 19.7°. Some stingy and cold-hearted "coldlords" were giving up trying to provide heat in rundown tenements, and a few had let boilers slip into disrepair-or even intentionally damaged them. Said City Heat Inspector Theodore Klopsis: "There is plenty of heating oil, but some landlords are deliberately turning off their boilers...
Triple deckers: The three-story townhouses that the majority of people in Mission Hill inhabit. Harvard tore down many of these in order to make room for the power plant and is letting others fall into disrepair so it has an excuse to rip them down and build another hospital...
...Shady deals with black marketeers who supply spare parts unavailable because of the West's boycott, for instance, have become the main cause of a runaway inflation that is estimated between 70% and 80%. The country's U.S.-supplied military hardware is in a state of such disrepair that it has put Iran at a severe disadvantage in its border conflicts with Iraq. A settlement with the U.S. would obviously go far to help matters...
Triple deckers: The three-story townhouses that the majority of people in Mission Hill inhabit. Harvard tore down many of these in order to make room for the power plant and is letting others fall into disrepair so it has an excuse to rip them down and build another hospital...