21.   Across the street, an abandoned building with decals of plants and shades on its boarded windows stood as a reminder of past policy brainstorms.

22.   Across the street, next to an overgrown lot, are a couple of abandoned buildings.

23.   After troops moved away from FRAPH headquarters late Monday morning, an ecstatic mob overran the abandoned building, destroying appliances and furniture.

24.   All those boarded-up windows and abandoned buildings on Stadium Drive could just as well be asleep, not blighted.

25.   But instead, the Mexicans were taken to an abandoned building and beaten with work tools.

26.   But Hunter-Gault saw more on those streets than abandoned buildings and graffiti-scarred walls.

27.   But many housing experts fear that the city will run out of money and political will before it runs out of small abandoned buildings.

28.   But the tracts of unused space, the abandoned buildings, the echoing emptiness of the place all testify to the visitation of a mighty disaster.

29.   Caused by rainwater cascading into the abandoned building, the crater was so large that one could look through it to the steel skeleton beyond.

30.   City Hall would have more money to repair infrastructure, tear down abandoned buildings, fight crime and address inner-city problems.