Europe s Shaky Foundations

My time to say goodbye to these old, tired walls.

We will put more Americans to work repairing crumbling roads and bridges.

And it has allowed Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia to linger on the crumbling edge of the failed state abyss.

Catherine successfully waged war against the decaying Ottoman Empire and advanced Russia's southern boundary to the Black Sea.

This programme, which started in Atlanta, Georgia, has now spread to 40 countries and has set two new targets to eliminate all poor housing in Sumter Country, Georgia, by the year 2000, and to eliminate poor housing at the city level in Atlanta by 1996.

The Advisory Committee recognizes the obligation of the United Nations to provide safe and sanitary accommodation for troops, and the necessity of transferring them from their current dilapidated premises.

Regional programmes for the development of housing construction for 2005 2007 and for major repair of dilapidated housing and the demolition of emergency dwellings are being implemented.

And he can dismiss the prime minister, Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, who has exhausted many on both sides of the sectarian divide during his 40 years in power.

Look, Mr Smollett, I'm no engineer, but the way you wanna do it, those crumbling walls and piles of stones, isn't that kind of dangerous for your men?

America cannot continue to live with the injustices of its health care system or with crumbling and obsolete infrastructure.

During the late spring of 1944, Schörner managed in a series of defensive battles to stabilize the crumbling front in the south on the Dniester River in Romania.

Until the infrastructure of the country is repaired and public health and education are restored, the prerequisites for a stable financial system will not emerge and the Afghan economy will remain in its shattered state.

Worse still, it seems that only the same system in which siloviki (secret policemen) are in charge appears capable of holding together such a ramshackle economic empire.

48. UNDP and WHO have held regular meetings to brief one another on programmes, to discuss and assess emerging or faltering approaches and to ensure complementarity of assistance.

Well, there are a couple estimates of how much it would cost to create a network of protected areas covering 20 percent of the ocean that would be only a fraction of what we are now paying the government hands out to a fishery that is collapsing.

In many of the countries in transition, sudden economic hardship, decaying industries and infrastructures and profound social disorientation are problems that development must urgently address.

The Agency also constructed three new school buildings (one in Lebanon and two in the Gaza Strip), 81 additional classrooms (6 in Lebanon, 4 in the Syrian Arab Republic, 30 in the West Bank and 41 in the Gaza Strip) and eight specialized rooms (one in the Syrian Arab Republic and seven in the Gaza Strip) to avoid triple shifting and to replace unsafe or dilapidated classrooms.