1.   A block or two from mansions with palm-shaded gardens stand crude unpainted bungalows fronting on crumbling streets, more reminiscent of the Third World than dot-com America.

2.   Abdullah leads me down a crumbling street known locally as Zenkot Lahjor, or the Alley of the Rocks.

3.   It was up to each city to devise new approaches to fighting poverty characterized by crumbling streets and buildings, broken homes, unemployment and crime.

4.   The vehicles, which cram the crumbling streets, are loaded with sacks of wheat, furniture and wood planks.

5.   Traffic chokes the crumbling streets.

6.   Political party vans, their bullhorns blaring, inch along the crumbling streets of Freetown, urging people to back their presidential and legislative candidates next Monday.

7.   On the crumbling streets of this seaside city, the acquittal of four U.S. police officers in the death of one of their own was received Saturday with dismay.