That will be vital to reviving the decrepit economy, in particular its garment-making.
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The reality is that Saddam would have had to have been removed at some point, and the decrepit state he held together by terror was bound to blow apart.
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Once or twice a week, Sukemi struggles aboard an overloaded bus (the family's decrepit minivan is too expensive to keep on the road) and she heads into Tanah Abang textile market, where she can purchase her materials more cheaply.
One of his first, and most unpopular, acts was to scrap the much-loved but decrepit fleet of Routemaster double-decker buses, dating from the 1950s.
Why did it take an hour for decrepit fire engines to reach the blazing supermarket?
For dinner, she dresses in pink and makes an effort to flirt with Bob the Second, who gamely returns her serves but is surely too decrepit to be a serious prospect.
Ratan Tata spent his first ten years at the helm of the family company tidying up its rambling and often decrepit Indian businesses before turning his attention to foreign markets in the late 1990s.
It has not reorganized itself, and the old and decrepit former U.S.IA bureaucracy now under its control, to face the post-Cold War challenge.
People continue to cook at about the same rate from the moment that they have mastered the art until the moment they die or are too decrepit to continue.
"I think they figure that their friends are watching but we're not, because they think we are old and decrepit and we barely know how to turn the computer on, " says Dr. Rivera, 54-years-old, of being a parent.
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The long-range bomber force dwindled to a handful of decrepit Cold War aircraft.
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All over Africa every day children walk or run for miles to reach decrepit buildings, which often do little more than keep off the sun and rain.
Apparently the 99% would from time to time wander in and even drive their decrepit vehicles through.
Billions of dollars were spent on technology initiatives irrelevant to overseas contingencies, while the equipment inventories of the military services were neglected until they became decrepit.
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Over the past decade, Jobs has hijacked the global music business, turned Apple's decrepit computer business into a juggernaut, and he is now threatening to steamroll through the global wireless industry with the iPhone.
Over the past decade, Jobs has hijacked the global music business, turned Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) decrepit computer business into a juggernaut, and he is now threatening to steamroll through the global wireless industry with the iPhone.
Several of us in the health professions have battled exhaustively to make efficiency changes and all too often found ourselves blocked by decrepit management structures.
Benny Avni saw, here and there, decrepit dovecotes, livestock stables turned into shops, the skeleton of an old truck sunk to its hips in savage growth beside a deserted tin shed or an empty doghouse.
Now these aging and sometimes decrepit institutions are in need of new talent and technology, and they lack the financial leverage to cope with malpractice and other costs that are rising faster than government reimbursements.
Or maybe the solons will decree that Vermont Yankee is old, decrepit and unfit for further duty (even though it's the NRC's job is to regulate safety).
The biggest losers will be inefficient local producers, such as one in Samara, in southern Russia, where the decrepit town brewery, featuring fermentation tanks with flaking linings, nasty smells and beer brewed to purists' horror from sugar and rice, has fought off all outside interest.
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