He said school buildings in a poor state would be improved "over time".
Mr Johnson hopes the voters will remember their liking for pork-barrel spending (a universal preference, but understandable in a poor state).
And although domestic football is in a poor state, the global game offers opportunities to sportsmen that rugby players can only dream of.
Many of its Pakefield laboratories and offices are within a 19th Century former hotel which is said to be in a poor state of repair.
The 40-acre site underwent a 12-week programme of drainage and repair work last year, but months of rain and snow has left it in a poor state, the council said.
At that time, much of the world's documentary heritage was in a poor state of preservation, which was worsened by war and social upheaval, lack of resources, and ignorance of the importance of this heritage.
"The most pressing problem is that the mechanical and electrical systems are in a poor state of repair, which is why we have embarked on a five-year programme of aggressive maintenance to mitigate against the most serious equipment failures, " he said.
His private villa on the outskirts of the city is in a poor state and his once prestigious mansion in his hometown of Arthington, some 40km (25 miles) west of Monrovia, is in ruins and covered by overgrown vegetation, our correspondent says.
The authority rates all but three of the basin's 23 river valleys as being in a poor ecological state.
The proportion of pupils educated in schools which are in a poor or bad state fell by more than half over the same period, from 37% of pupils in 2007 to 16% in 2012.
They have returned incumbents such as Nitish Kumar's government in Bihar, a poor northern state, last year who are good managers and bring better schools, hospitals and roads, or those who bring more stability, as in Assam.
If I were a poor person in a red state, my primary issue would be which candidate, including Obama, speaks to my needs.
First, even a small, poor, post-Soviet state in demographic decline can survive, indeed thrive, in a de-facto currency union with mighty Germany.
Last month Mr Gandhi led attempts to revive the local Congress party in Bihar, a dirt-poor but populous eastern state which has just held elections for its legislature.
That came in Dantewada, a remote, forested, dirt-poor and sparsely populated district in the south of Chhattisgarh state.
Saudi Arabia plans to set up a state fund to buy farmland in poor countries to meet rising food demand at home.
The big-borrowing countries around the edge of the euro zone suffered a near-death experience in 2010, and they will be in a pretty miserable state in 2011 as austerity measures bite and households come to terms with their high debts and poor prospects.
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Lady Thatcher, who had been in poor health for several years, will not have a state funeral, but will be accorded the same status as Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Queen Mother.
There is a big debate in Moroccan football at the moment about the poor state of the game, with the national team disappointing at the African Cup of Nations in Ghana last month.
Maoist rebels are fighting for a Maoist state for tribal people and the rural poor in the north, east and centre of India.
In 2007, the salaries of military personnel were raised on two occasions and in 2008 the government addressed the poor state of military housing with a building and mortgage scheme, wrote Mark Gay over at The Moscow News.
And some policies, such as a massive increase in state-funded child-care for the working poor, will raise costs while introducing new benefits traps.
But passivity in the face of egregious crimes by the state or by guerrillas is a poor foundation on which to build the rule of law something which many Latin American democracies still lack.
The populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh also saw a rise in the number of poor people.
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Vietnam cannot afford to provide services to the rural poor, or cope with a population influx in the cities, and cosset state-owned firms at the same time even during a boom.
And though Mr Cardoso's ministers sometimes seemed afraid to defend their policies, Mr Covas relished taking on critics: last year, turning 70 and already in poor health, he had a series of public shouting-matches with striking state workers.
The poor state of public transport and infrastructure generally played a large part in the ejection of Labor governments in New South Wales in March and in Victoria last November.
The rise of homeopathy, crystal healing, and all that jazz are worrisome, and their increasing popularity says a lot about the poor state of science education and the loss of faith in the health care industry.
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As prime minister from 1959 to 1990, he led its rise from a poor, small, corrupt port to a first-world city-state in just one generation.
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That is less than half what Louisiana spends on inmates in state-run prisons, and it is barely a third of what even relatively poor states like West Virginia spend.
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