Although no big factory closures are involved, GM will reduce its salaried staff in America by 10%, to cope with declining market share.Oldsmobile, the oldest of GM's brands, has been decrepit for some time.
Exactly 30 years ago, they had succumbed to Los Angeles, the American capital of the Iranian diaspora, and for several weeks my family had been living in a decrepit hotel downtown that had been recommended at the tourist information booth at LAX.
So much of its Victorian legacy was disgusting – overcrowded, insanitary, decrepit houses that had been a scandal for most of the 20th century.
"Where there had been wear and tear, or it was somewhat decrepit, now there's a crispness".
She had been living with her grandmother in a decrepit farmhouse, about a mile from Vinci in the Tuscan hills.
When the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center opened in 1994, supporters of manufacturing in New York City cheered: what had once been a decrepit rope factory on the Brooklyn waterfront had been turned into a low-cost home for light manufacturing companies and artisans.
On the other, he has an unhappy pro basketball team on his hands — the owners of the Milwaukee Bucks say that if they don't get a new arena, the NBA will take their team and move it to Seattle or someplace else — for which he has offered to spend at least $320 million in state, county and city taxpayer funds to replace their home, which at 27 years old has been declared too decrepit to live.
[A7] REBUILDING IRAQ -- In an example of the thankless task of rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure, the Army Corps of Engineers has been rehabilitating a decrepit sewage-treatment plant in Baghdad in secrecy, fearing it could be a prime target for insurgents.
For a decade at least, ads have been a lame, decrepit wolf in comically unconvincing sheep's clothing.
Inside, the store could not have been more spare, a decrepit imitation of a standard suburban grocery store.
