It has not reorganized itself, and the old and decrepit former U.S.IA bureaucracy now under its control, to face the post-Cold War challenge.

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Bangladesh's energy reserves may be large, but its gas and power networks are old and decrepit, and the lights regularly go out in Dhaka.

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Besides, he added, Tsukiji's buildings are old and decrepit.

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"I think they figure that their friends are watching but we're not, because they think we are old and decrepit and we barely know how to turn the computer on, " says Dr. Rivera, 54-years-old, of being a parent.

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Or maybe the solons will decree that Vermont Yankee is old, decrepit and unfit for further duty (even though it's the NRC's job is to regulate safety).

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The rooms there did not look decrepit and old, which is kind of what I expected.

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That's exactly what Kelley Williams-Bolar did, pulling her 12- and 16-year-old daughters out of the decrepit school they attended in Akron, Ohio, and enrolling them in a suburban district where her father lived.

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You entered a maze of tiny cramped rooms filled with broken and decrepit tables and chairs, like an attic a hundred years old, decaying objects suffused in cobwebs and mildew.

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Benny Avni saw, here and there, decrepit dovecotes, livestock stables turned into shops, the skeleton of an old truck sunk to its hips in savage growth beside a deserted tin shed or an empty doghouse.

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