Word: disrepair
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...ceiling stretched overhead for 243 ft. (74 m), flooding the terminal with sunlight. Religious imagery adorned its neo-Gothic façade, and spires reached for the heavens. But maintaining that splendor proved difficult. Despite surviving the London Blitz and a planned demolition in 1966, the station fell into disrepair and became more synonymous with drug dealers and prostitutes than with imperial grandeur...
...representative his decision not to take part in a dunking booth event. The site’s other fresh feature—a blog for council business—is not altogether novel. A similar feature was added to the site in May 2006 only to fall quickly into disrepair. “I don’t know whether more than half a dozen people ever visited that blog in its whole existence,” said UC Representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who was a contributor to the 2006 blog. Greenfield added that while...
...with that comes the reality that the house is sold as is. That might very well mean that a family is still living there (get ready to start eviction proceedings), that there's a second mortgage no one bothered to mention, or that the house is in major disrepair (forget about arranging an inspection before an auction). "This isn't for novices," says Todd Beitler, co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying Foreclosures. "There's a lot of research that needs to be done." It's little wonder that about 80% of the time, the company that...
...grappled with a murder-a-day crime rate that is among the highest in America's big cities. For many years, the city's rampant graffiti problem was seen as closely linked to more violent crimes, whether explicitly as gang markings or simply as a sign of neighborhoods in disrepair. But in 1984 then mayor W. Wilson Goode made a fateful decision: instead of declaring war on the spray-painting vandals, he would offer them amnesty. Goode gave Jane Golden--a petite, white, high-energy, Stanford-educated muralist--a six-week trial period to persuade the black and Latino youths...
...Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says the United States has finished 2,797 reconstruction projects, but Iraq's dysfunctional government has managed to take control of just 435 of them. Thousands of newly completed projects ranging from hospitals to power plants risk going unused and falling into disrepair...