Superstorm Sandy damaged the building's $10.6m £6.8mm) clean-power sources – those world-class fuel cells – a third of which went unrepaired and unreplaced because of a costly flaw in the main tower's design and pressure to honour a billion-dollar deal with Condé Nast, the global publisher and the building's anchor tenant.
Buildings with unrepaired roofs, abandoned water wells and well-trodden new paths that appear circuitous also provide telltale signs.An alternative system using photographs taken by aircraft is used by the Croatian Mine Action Centre (CROMAC), a government agency in Sisak, a town southwest of Zagreb.
The price of this is that small leaks may go undetected and thus unrepaired, which can lead to larger leaks later.
Most famously, if one window was broken in a building and left unrepaired (his italics), soon all the other windows would be broken too, and criminal elements would take over.
An unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, they argued, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.
So what exactly is "broken windows" policing, and does it really explain the drop in crime?The term "broken windows" refers to an observation made in the early 1980s by Mr Kelling, a criminologist, and James Wilson, a social scientist, that when a building window is broken and left unrepaired, the rest of the windows will soon be broken too.
In poorer areas teachers often go unpaid for months, and school buildings unrepaired.
More often they arise when cellular wear and tear goes unrepaired, a process exacerbated by certain chemicals and radiation.Understanding the genetic changes that cause particular cancers may suggest ways to attack them with specially tailored drugs.
Budgets will be slashed; roads and schools will languish unrepaired.
The husks of Ingush and Ossetian homes destroyed in the fighting still lie unrepaired.
