31.   Clan forces fought fiercely last week for control of a single abandoned UN building with a commanding line-of-fire position over the airport.

32.   Conveniently, they find an abandoned building next door to use as spy nest and living quarters.

33.   Countless vacant lots and abandoned buildings invite trash and pollute views.

34.   Del Col cited the absence of forensic evidence, like blood and fingerprints, linking his client to the abandoned building where the authorities said the attack occurred.

35.   Deborah C. Wright, the commissioner of housing preservation and development, has devised new ways to clean up the hundreds of small abandoned buildings still scattered around neighborhoods.

36.   Down the street is a block of abandoned buildings, bordering a shuttered gas station where litter blows around in the empty lot.

37.   Each building was identified through police records as a site of drug raids and arrests or as an abandoned building where police officers had videotaped drug use.

38.   During the Olympics, the former abandoned buildings and weed-strewn lots would have been international eyesores.

39.   For them, settling in abandoned buildings is their way of staying out of city shelters.

40.   Forget the old images of bombed-out streets, of abandoned buildings and ravaged neighborhoods that became a symbol of urban decay in America.