1.   Its fortunes have steadily worsened with crumbling roads, insufficient police and increased crime.

2.   Last Tuesday night, a chain of headlights snaked down the crumbling road of Highway O leading to the Potosi Correctional Center.

3.   Overnight, a tent city has sprung up near a power plant along the crumbling road between Kukes and the border.

4.   Overnight, a tent city has sprung up near an electric plant along the crumbling road between Kukes and the border.

5.   Crumbling roads and a lack of railroads are major barriers to higher production, trade and regional cooperation.

6.   Shantytown squalor, homelessness, crime and crumbling roads and bridges were among the range of issues raised during the opening speeches at the so-called city summit.

7.   The government blames its international trade isolation for a large number of deaths, widespread poverty, malnutrition and crumbling roads, bridges and other facilities.

8.   They were the only vehicles that could handle the increasingly crumbling roads, and new parts could be turned out on simple lathes if originals wore out.

9.   The project will be the first BOT infrastructure scheme licensed since Vietnam unveiled new regulations last year to encourage foreign investment to rebuild crumbling roads and utilities.