Word: shabbier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall semester. Soon after, cold and snow drive frisbee-players and sun-bathers away. In the spring, the clothes-line-like fence keeps students off to make the grass perfect for Commencement. It is our belief that alumni would actually contribute more if they saw patchy grass and a shabbier yard, examples that Harvard really did need their money...
...uncharitably cynical were the official not standing directly across from the National Palace. While that building's facade has also been given an impressive face-lift to honor the Oct. 15 return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the state of affairs inside Haiti's house of state is considerably shabbier. The departing military-backed government ransacked the palace so thoroughly that executives at the nerve center of Haiti's government now have no vehicles, computers or typewriters, almost no pencils, only one toilet -- and just $11.5 million in the treasury on Aristide's return...
...September, but he's wearing the same woolen sweater that he had on last February. The garment has gotten shabbier since then, but its owner has gotten no closer to finishing his dissertation...