The career of Gimelstob, who now commentates and serves as a player representative on the ATP World Tour's board of directors, was blighted by a back injury.
Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.
The most recent centre-right government, which was briefly in office under Carl Bildt in the early 1990s, was blighted by a deep recession, followed by a huge row over whether to build the Oresund bridge to Denmark.
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For two decades, beginning in 1985, the city worked to clean up a blighted 13-mile industrial corridor along the Tennessee River, a stretch so filthy that motorists used to have to use their headlights during the day.
Detroit neighborhoods with more people and a better chance of survival will receive different levels of city services than more blighted areas under a plan unveiled Wednesday that some residents fear may pit them against each other for scarce resources.
But with terrible irony, the replacement housing itself gradually became a blighted locus of social problems.
Mr. Oldman's emphasis is on self-containment, but what his Smiley seems to contain is all the wisdom of a blighted world.
He'd just walked away from a business failure in Florida, running through "several hundred thousand dollars" in a blighted attempt to build cell phone towers.
The city was a blighted, unhealthy, confining place in 20th-century America that was true enough and travel-related advertising urged Americans to take to the open-road cure, to reclaim their unfenced inheritance.
"We think right now it's at a tipping point where the housing values will drastically decrease and it will become a very blighted area, " says Payne.
But in 2005, controversy blighted the race as a result of the Michelin tyre safety row which meant that only six cars were on the starting grid - those of Ferrari, Jordan and Minardi.
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Kevin Drum was understandably skeptical about the prospects of moving private investors to purchase and upkeep a blighting (if not blighted) housing stock.
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Simultaneous reform on all fronts is essential if Japan is successfully to get to grips with problems that have blighted its economic performance for more than a decade.
Incomes were good, everyone had a job, household savings were above the national average, neighborhoods that now are unimaginably blighted were filled with house-proud families like mine who imagined a wonderful future in which their children and grandchildren would find even better homes, perhaps living in upscale Strathmore, Bradford Hills, Sedgwick Farms, or Fayetteville.
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The big losers, Mr Saffo thinks, are the suburbs that were built for specific functions in a previous era but are now blighted.
One of those struggling outfits, Virgin Racing, suffered badly from technical problems as a gearbox leakage and telemetry problems blighted Lucas di Grassi and Timo Glock's second sessions.
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If life is a beach for Philippoussis now, it wasn't towards the end of his career when injury blighted his final attempts to snare the one thing his resume lacked -- a major title.
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In blighted Bradford acres were demolished to make way for a shopping centre that remains unbuilt.
Even a country like Zimbabwe, which is blighted by political strife at the other end of the continent, keeps reserves of about 400, 000 tonnes of maize.
The cringe was a colonial hangover in a stultifyingly conservative Anglo-Celtic country blighted by the tyranny of distance, where governments of neither political hue encouraged Australian artists to speak with their own voice.
However, BA's efficiency plans would involve significant changes and there are fears they could lead to strikes, though Mr Walsh played down the likelihood of a repeat of the industrial action that blighted travellers last summer.
His campaign was blighted by multiple visits to the stewards' office and a highly-publicized spat with Ferrari's Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, and he had a high-profile split with pop star girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger.
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The 30-year-old one-time Liverpool youth has had his career, which has spanned nine senior clubs, blighted by injury but is mulling over an offer of a one-year deal to make his debut in Scotland's top flight.
The task force was created after a series of incidents of racist abuse which have blighted the sport in recent years.
Driving into Antananarivo also brought a pleasant surprise - the giant potholes which had blighted the capital had all been repaired.
He also runs a janitorial service and a thrift store that employ 38 people in the blighted MacArthur Park neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.
The city of Houston floated and bobbed, sinkholes opening now and then to claim a piece of terra firma, and over this blighted terrain presided Fanny Mann and Constance, of different generations and stations, crises and wishes.
"Industry as we developed it wouldn't be considered blighted under today's standards, " admits Graham Ritchie, a former city attorney.
In the past two years, the scheme has been blighted by upsets including the re-sale of used carbon offsets, a phishing scam, hacking and continuing VAT fraud.
Price and I drove down Route 33 from Athens, into Meigs County and a town called Pomeroy, which once had been a loading dock for coal barges and now lay prostrate and blighted along the Ohio River.
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