With the seeds of decay in the city's signature industry now planted, Mr. Narita and local business leaders are doing something they never dreamed would be necessary: Looking to attract new commerce.
In 1963, "the seeds of decay were clearly in the air," said Jim Curran, a professor of law and police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who spent the year as a rookie in the New York Police Department and still recalls people crying on the street when Kennedy was killed.
And yet it was in this institution that the seeds of decay and disintegration took root; for most of the army's commanders were drawn from the great landowners of Anatolia, who had acquired their riches and their status by undermining the social and economic structure on which its recruitment depended.
It is only the memory of poverty that creates the social discipline necessary for prosperity, he suggests; once that is forgotten, the seeds of decay begin to sprout.Mr Brown is an interesting man; introspective and with perhaps a touch of prissy self-importance.
From Alexis de Tocqueville who was a qualified admirer of America near its beginning to Jonathan Franzen's musings about Freedom's end, there have been many who saw the seeds of decay in its median, consumer mediocrity.
The seeds of the decay were planted two years ago, when education secretary Michael Gove slashed funding for school sports partnerships, which had helped to increase the quality and range of sport available in schools.
Less commonly, this pathogen can be seed-borne (E1-Shafey et al. 1976) and may irregularly cause decay of seed or pre-emergence damping-off under heavy inoculum pressure (Sabet et al. 1970).
Interestingly enough, those new practices eventually sow the seeds of their own decay and lead to another period of revolution.
When Khrushchev marched into an Iowa cornfield, the Soviet leadership was facing its own list of tensions, the "seeds of its own decay," as George Kennan put it.
