1.   --And at CDC headquarters, shabby buildings have made some security upgrades impossible.

2.   Though she now lives just north of Houston, Ms. Steir works in a big loft in a shabby building on Greene Street below Broome.

3.   After one of their trucks gets temporarily stuck in the mud, the guerrillas roll into the village of narrow gray streets and shabby concrete buildings shortly after dawn.

4.   For years, the tiny cubicle in a shabby old building of crowded Kowloon has just about sufficed as home for Fung Kai-wing.

5.   The windows of their three-room apartment in a shabby building were shattered and their furniture was gone.