Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into schools to threaten small children into giving the names of relatives they could accuse of being rebels," he says. "If the child did not answer, they shot him and his family." Ahmed Ali still shudders at the memory of seeing people massacred by troops, their bodies left to rot in a schoolyard until dogs came to eat them...
Enough of this blame-the-victim mentality. Trees need to breathe, too. The steel sheet should go around the Castle. All the way around. All the way to the top. With a roof. A good construction date: this week, when Frank Sinatra visits. Everyone will be inside. Let 'em rot there...
...Such loans were never meant to be repaid, and now the accumulating interest charges had grown so large they could not be ignored. The reason for the grim announcement was an audit by the British office of the Price Waterhouse accounting firm that revealed for the first time the rot at B.C.C.I.'s core -- a black hole consisting of at least $1.7 billion and perhaps far more...
...America's status in the world is smudged and complicated by the realities of its long, slow rot at home...
...rot in private minds eats away at public responsibility. Judges in separate courtrooms the other day pronounced sentence on Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington (six months for possession of cocaine, the drug that is tearing his city apart) and on three Northwest Airlines pilots who, while drunk one morning last spring, flew a Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo, N. Dak., to Minneapolis. Mayor Barry, still running the addict's street con, portrayed himself as the victim of racial prejudice and, worse, as a man who has recovered from his problem and mended his ways...