[It was] an obsolete pachyderm of tawny limestone.

Despite the cassette format being almost entirely obsolete in portable and home markets, there was still widespread installation of cassette head units in new vehicles up until two years ago. Car manufacturers have reacted better to the current consumer demand for in-vehicle portable music player integration, compressed audio playback and DVD entertainment.

Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side. Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere--the sweet restful silence of nature.

Over the course of the last generation or two, a variety of technological, economic and social changes have rendered obsolete the stuff of American social capital.

We haul an awful lot of limestone out of the area that is used in numerous factories in and out of the area.

The limestone should be cleaned up to look as it did originally. This building is a beautiful building, but when you look at it closely, it's just not satisfactory.