Word: shabbier
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...Golkar party, for example makes for a particularly tempting political target. Currently in detention, he faces 20 years in prison for his alleged role in the misuse of $4 million in state money. Critics say Akbar's trial is not part of a crusade against graft but something much shabbier: a maneuver by the President to remove a strong political rival from the scene. With Akbar-Megawati's opponent in the 1999 presidential race-in prison and preoccupied with a lengthy trial, he is almost certain to be replaced as head of Golkar. And with the party collapsing from internal...
...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...
...controversy over Senator Quayle's military service has recalled one of the shabbier aspects of American involvement in Viet Nam. Middle-class youngsters often managed to duck military induction, while society's less privileged members did most of the fighting. Some 76% of the 2,150,000 servicemen sent to Viet Nam from 1965 to 1973 came from working-class or lower-middle-class backgrounds. Roughly 25% were from families with incomes below the poverty line. Yet college-educated young men stood a 12% chance of being shipped off to the war, in contrast...