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In the southern part of Rome stands the rather forlorn EUR complex of obsolescent modern buildings.
The indigenous flora and fauna likewise have been carefully marketed to tourists as different : the Tasmanian tiger (now probably extinct) lives in legend and forlorn reaches of the remotest parts of the island, the Tasmanian devil (a carnivorous marsupial of undeniably fierce appearance) in tired zoos and nature parks where nonexclusive animals like the kangaroo and koala share the honors with a remarkable range of diminutive marsupials genuinely peculiar to Tassie, which have added value in an age that cultivates the notion of wilderness.
Similarly, Mexico's output--two-thirds of which will be exported--is expected to rise 10 percent a year for the next three years, while even the Japanese, whose car companies are among the only bright spots in a forlorn economy, are adding to capacity.
It is a little careworn and forlorn today and may be worth visiting only for its view of the harbor.
That, as we all know, is a forlorn hope (to abuse a Dutch cliché): those who “know” that when two or more people or things are the subject of a verb you have to use were , not was , regardless of the context, are like those who “know” (like the people at Elizabeth Arden) that millennium is spelled with one n, who “know” that it is Parmagiana , not Parmigiana (like the people at Burger King), and who have no doubt that baking soda, baking powder, washing soda, and ice-cream soda are all the same thing.
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