1.   Aesthetically, Matthew Henson still offers some of the most attractive homes in a neighborhood where streets are lined with junkyards and crumbling houses.

2.   Home for Mrs. Cretu is a dingy, cramped apartment in the attic of a crumbling house in a poor district of Bucharest.

3.   In some places, shoddy developers have already left people stuck with crumbling houses that are quickly declining in value.

4.   Like American Indians in other states, many of those living in New Mexico have suffered severe poverty, reflected in their crumbling houses and high unemployment rates.

5.   Residents make do in crumbling colonial houses subdivided several times over.

6.   Their trailer is next to that of their daughter and son-in-law, Patty and Edward McGinnis, and near the crumbling little house where Edward McGinnis was born.

7.   De-miners are regularly interrupted by young children who come to the dangerous neighborhoods to take wooden beams from crumbling houses for firewood.

8.   Most of the dead and injured where hit by falling masonry from crumbling houses and buildings, police Lt. Pine Peden said.

9.   Most of the dead and injured where hit by falling masonry from crumbling houses and buildings, he said.