• To frame the debate as one of rich-and-entitled versus poor-and-dispossessed is to both miss the point and further inflame an already incendiary environment.

    NEWYORKER: Super-Rich Irony

  • And they only had themselves - and their poor finishing - to blame, not least Butterfield who fired an early chance over, curled another effort wide of the post, saw another shot held by Rochdale goalkeeper Josh Lillis and was inches off target with a header.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Barnsley 0-1 Rochdale

  • Already, McKinsey has begun bringing together cash-rich and cash-poor clients to revive this practice.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina's battered companies

  • Of course perennially land-rich and cash-poor Chesapeake was seeking to talk up its book at the time it was negotiating joint ventures, but that vast discrepancy between the values that the company was touting to shareholders in its presentations compared with ultimate deal realizations should just reiterate how little credibility McClendon has with investors.

    FORBES: Chesapeake Settles For Less Than Expected In $1B Deal With Sinopec

  • In between all the plotting and back-stabbing, the characters blunder into a broad array of financial- and estate-planning disasters, from bad investments and messy trusts to poor business-succession plans and power struggles following health crises.

    WSJ: Money Lessons From 'Downton Abbey'

  • The Congress party is regarded by voters as secular and pro-poor but wary of business.

    WSJ: As India Party Tries to Sway Gandhi to Run, He Demurs

  • Obama was buoyed up on a groundswell of small donors, young and old, rich and poor -- people who wished to see a country restored and an economy rebuilt.

    CNN: Romney's way: Let middle class pay the rich's tab

  • The FLEMMS also revealed, however, a significant gap between the poor and the non-poor populations, showing that 7 out of 10 persons who were poor were functionally literate compared to 9 out of 10 among the non-poor.

    UNESCO: Country Profile: Philippines

  • But it asks questions about how it would do so, it poses challenges to an independent Scotland which it says other countries are facing, and it reflects the fact that public finances - in wealthy and poor, oil-rich and resource-starved - have a nasty habit of requiring uncomfortable choices.

    BBC: Scottish independence: not whether, but how?

  • Surrounded by Serbian territory and land mines, and only linked to Bosnia by a long and poor-quality road, Gorazde stands on its own, unfairly forgotten by its fellow countrymen.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • The problems of Asia's financial firms are due not to too much competition, but to over-protection and cronyism, which have encouraged shoddy lending and poor cost-control.

    ECONOMIST: Dealing for dollars

  • The Philippines is trying to take from the rich and give to the poor - and do so by consensus.

    CNN: INSIDE STORY: PROMISED LAND

  • The World Bank employs thirteen thousand people in more than a hundred countries, and lends about twenty-five billion dollars a year to poor and middle-income nations.

    NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

  • Mr Thaksin - whose populist policies won him the support of much of the rural and urban poor - was thrown out of office in a 2006 military coup.

    BBC: Arrest over Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra's Twitter hack

  • We hope that as Venezuelans mourn the passing of President Chavez and recall his positive legacies -- especially the gains made for the poor and vulnerable -- the political leaders will move the country forward by building a new consensus that ensures equal opportunities for all Venezuelans to participate in every aspect of national life.

    CNN: Hugo Chavez's death draws sympathy, anger

  • Mr. Weiner, whose mother was a public schoolteacher, repeated ideas he has laid out over the last week: use gifted-and-talented programs to attract students to poor-performing schools, and treat teachers better.

    WSJ: Anthony Weiner Joins the New York City Mayoral Debate

  • Today, Lapa attracts an equally diverse mix of cariocas (Rio locals) - rich and poor, favela dweller and condo-owner alike - all drawn to the old-fashioned gafieiras (dance halls) and the electric sound that crackles over these battered, rhythm-filled sidewalks.

    BBC: Searching for the perfect samba beat

  • Pakistan lost every match on tour - three Tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 contest - in a visit which was dogged by reports of poor morale and in-fighting, and which saw captain Shahid Afridi banned for biting the ball.

    BBC: Pakistan lift one-year ban on Rana Naved-ul-Hasan

  • We aren't doing enough to prepare all students--especially poor and minority students--for 21st-century workplaces.

    FORBES: U.S. Rep. George Miller

  • On the current trajectory and policy for electricity, then that seems a reasonable bet, as chronic under-investment, poor foresight and the de-carboning commitments combine towards a big and expensive catch-up.

    BBC: SSE's energetic counter-attack

  • But there's no doubt that even on a poor night - and I'm not saying he had a poor night against Liechtenstein - Wayne Rooney does things that put you on the edge of your seat.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Internationals | England | Why Rooney is 10 years ahead of his time

  • One possible function for a modern WPA would be to go to neighborhoods--particularly poor and working class ones--and insulate houses.

    FORBES: New Geographer

  • It was miserable fare for both sets of fans, but they will be far more concerned with the future of their respective managers - and key players - after such poor campaigns.

    BBC: Hull 0-0 Liverpool

  • "We believe this technology will, in the long term, be able to provide cheaper and more sustainable heating, which could be an answer to fuel poverty issues prevalent in many areas of Glasgow, particularly those with a mining past and a legacy of poor-quality housing and high unemployment, " he said.

    BBC: Glasgow under-street heating plan unveiled

  • Her alternative to quotas: a broad affirmative-action programme including scholarships and subsidised pre-vestibular courses for blacks and poor whites.

    ECONOMIST: Race in Brazil

  • This immunity from the slings-and-arrows of poor power quality in the residential sector is unlikely to last long.

    FORBES: Perfect Power: Clean Energy's Killer App

  • Irish lost their first match against Saracens 18-14 and Danaher said a poor first-half display let them down.

    BBC: Irish will bounce back - Danaher

  • "A fissure already exists between the working and non-working poor, " she told MPs.

    BBC: MPs urged to back 1% cap on benefit rises

  • But this latest Trojan warning inflames worries over unlicensed third-party app stores - and the poor awareness among users over possible threats.

    BBC: China mobile users warned about large botnet threat

  • It is clear that specific protective structures and mechanisms established to secure institutions from bad risks and poor decisions--such as banks' boards--failed to deliver.

    FORBES

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