Facebook, for one thing, is not going to spend its new pile of shareholder cash on buying a rickety, crumbling contraption like RIM.

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He says that crumbling up the course like this forced him to study his own teaching more than he had at the lectern.

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Its concrete tower blocks were crumbling, the peasant housing like slums, and the infrastructure chronically rundown.

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By any normal measure, a Republican clobbering a Democrat in a city where the latter outnumber the former by five to one, where unemployment is double the national average, where the schools are crumbling and where few people actually like him should count as an electoral phenomenon.

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In the developing world, Urban life is a hieronymus Bosch-like vision of tangled traffic, crumbling infrastructure, overcrowding and crippling economic inefficiencies.

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Like Florida, Nevada has been hard hit by the crumbling economy and housing market crisis.

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It's like standing on the edge of a cliff with the brick underneath your feet crumbling.

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The idea of rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and creating lots of jobs for construction workers sidelined by the housing market slump sure seemed like a good one.

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