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She and the infant Henry returned ten days later to my cavernous but cold and ill-maintained apartment in Paddington, where the kitchen ceiling had collapsed in a cloud of white dust three weeks before Jan went into the hospital.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Few passable roads traverse Congo after decades of war and corrupt rule, forcing the country's deeply impoverished people to rely on ill-maintained planes and boats to move around.
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Looking at McLean alone, voters see crumbling roads and ill-maintained road medians.
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And he accidentally burns down Maidenhead Grange while lighting a fire in an ill-maintained chimney in order to seduce a date who insisted on seeing the lodge.
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I think that almost every pro-concrete opinion here is colored by having encountered ill-maintained brick sidewalks that are, on average, far older than ill-maintained concrete sidewalks. jkw Says:
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Looking at McLean alone, voters see crumbling roads and ill-maintained road medians.
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She and the infant Henry returned ten days later to my cavernous but cold and ill-maintained apartment in Paddington, where the kitchen ceiling had collapsed in a cloud of white dust three weeks before Jan went into the hospital.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Few passable roads traverse the country after decades of war and corrupt rule, forcing the country's deeply impoverished people to rely on ill-maintained planes and boats to move around.
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A closed or ill-maintained park becomes vulnerable to vandalism and crime.
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It doesn't matter that an ill-maintained nuclear reactor, uncontained coal slurry or a leaking fecal pond leeches poison into the atmosphere in which we all live.
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