Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.

曼彻斯特仍然受到城区脏乱和严重贫困问题的困扰。

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The line came to encapsulate the borough's urban blight of the time.

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Its global headquarters a vast complex that includes a temple, a huge tabernacle, a genealogical library, a museum, an administrative complex and an apartment for the Prophet has long protected downtown Salt Lake from the urban blight that is commonplace elsewhere.

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In a soft-spoken but fiercely candid way, he talks about the city's seemingly insurmountable problems--high crime and unemployment, miserable schools, government cronyism, urban blight, a continuing brain drain, relentless push-back against painful cuts and, above all, the debt, the mountainous debt.

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