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We cannot have people at this level looking for basics like food and shoes.
ECONOMIST: Brain scan
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In rural areas poverty leads to a lack of the basics: food, water, primary schools, simple health care.
ECONOMIST: Anti-poverty programmes
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The basics like food and energy are like brakes on these economies.
FORBES: Rising Food And Energy Prices Will Wreak Havoc
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But prices for such basics as food and fuel have soared.
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And the aid should consist of little more than the basics of food and fuel and that only in the extraordinarily unlikely circumstances that ordinary Palestinians were facing a true crisis.
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And the aid should consist of little more than the basics of food and fuel -- and that only in the extraordinarily unlikely circumstances that ordinary Palestinians were facing a true crisis.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Terrorism as career option
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These new consumers have just gotten beyond the basics such as food and shelter.
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This group of people has passed the threshold of survival and does not need to worry about the basics such as food and clothing, and it has some disposable income to buy discretionary goods and services.
FORBES: Defining the Chinese Middle Class
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According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, spending by households on many of modern life's "basics" food at home, automobiles, clothing and footwear, household furnishings and equipment, and housing and utilities fell from 53% of disposable income in 1950 to 44% in 1970 to 32% today.
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Not just the obvious basics such as sufficient resources of food and water, even the simple light bulb poses a problem.
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Broadening the healthcare product means acknowledging that it takes more than medicine to advance health it also takes food, heat, housing, and other basics without which health radically declines.
FORBES: Realigning Health with Care
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In Europe, consumers now buy food in the way they purchase clothes: going downmarket for basics and splurging on the odd treat.
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