Public services, infrastructure, the very fabric of the nation: these too are being converted into risk-free investments.
She loves her city's tight-knit, collaborative artistic community, but she, Ms. King and Ms. Lee agree that Chicago lacks the infrastructure — production facilities, fabric stores and suppliers — to support emerging designers.
We have to consider the possibility that something bad may happen, like "the situation on the ground deteriorat ing) and violence increas ing)," which may very well happen because, ya' know, we totally ripped apart the Iraqi infrastructure and societal fabric.
Many of the European partners in NATO have been able to move ahead of the US economically because they have shed billions in military spending and reallocated the money for building up the infrastructure and social fabric that we find in tatters here.
Documenting physical violence and rape is difficult anywhere, and is particularly challenging in settings where infrastructure and social fabric have been eroded by conflict [ 2, 3, 6].
"Government has to look at its historical building fabric as infrastructure, even though it's privately owned," said Jeff Flynn, Wilmington's deputy director of economic development.
Businesses as much as households want to know that the state is willing to step in, not just to rescue banks but to invest in infrastructure and maintain the fabric of public services, otherwise they will stop investing or invest abroad.
"Its fabric and infrastructure is deteriorating, it is inefficient and has increasing utility, repair and maintenance requirements," the council said.
The trend since the 1980s is negative because of the increase in infrastructure and discontinuous urban fabric.
