That and the sense, especially in California, that the public infrastructure is falling to pieces.

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The House of Culture's once-grand foyer and staircase were also completely deserted and falling to pieces.

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Eventually the train tracks crossed over Lovell Road, and we got off them there while the road took us across the river on a steel and concrete bridge that was falling to pieces now.

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Netting is being hung on their facades to protect workers at the site from falling pieces of glass or concrete.

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The jagged pieces of the mosaic keep dropping off the wall and falling to the floor with a clatter.

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Something that you might have been able to gather from recent news pieces is that the economy of the continent of Europe is falling apart.

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But even the failures have the chance to inspire some other innovator, perhaps in some other field, who sees some other pieces falling together that they can employ.

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