UHF-broadcast market is as poor as that, why are the stations so reluctant to give it up?
"Advocating for wildlife conservation is always a battle in a country as poor as the DRC, " says Morel.
The poor will always be with us, but they may not be as poor as they used to be.
Some countries have got immensely richer, while many others are as poor as they were hundreds of years ago.
If they choose to break down Sunday's film, they might find their defense was just as poor as it was on Saturday.
It shows that the country has a music scene as rich and poor as America's, as evolved and devolved as our own.
In a country as poor as the Philippines, such savings are invaluable.
Unfortunately for the crowd under the closed stadium roof, the quality of the punches was as poor as the quality of the rugby.
"It was one of the worst performances I have seen, especially considering we were supposed to be playing a team as poor as us, " he said.
Based on Forbes' estimates, Kamprad is very rich, but not as rich as the Swedish news weekly Veckans Affaerer estimates (nor as poor as Ikea suggests).
As I said, she was born and raised a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx, in an environment, by the way, as materially poor as anywhere in New York City.
Many northerners voted for him because he was a Muslim or because most of them are as poor as any southern Nigerian, despite the north's wealthy and powerful upper class.
Four times the area of France, and source of a fifth of the world's nickel and two-fifths of its platinum, Russia's entire Krasnoyarsk krai, or region, has only about as many inhabitants as Boston and despite their land's vast natural wealth, they are as poor as church mice.
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That kind of performance is a lot to expect from any fund, especially one with as poor holdings as ARPAX.
Construction is in as poor shape as manufacturing.
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The numbers, however, suggest that poor Mancunians and Liverpudlians eat just as few green vegetables as poor Glaswegians (Glasgow also smokes and binge-drinks less than the other two cities).
In Brazil those living in rural areas are twice as likely to be poor as others, and around 45% in these areas have not completed lower secondary school.
And we should reduce poverty among elderly women, who are nearly twice as likely to be poor as other seniors -- and we should eliminate the limits on what seniors on Social Security can earn.
Indeed, no nation included in the major international rankings educates as many poor students or as ethnically diverse a population as does the United States.
But what is perhaps most striking is that which is revealed by the italicized sentences: Indeed, no nation included in the major international rankings educates as many poor students or as ethnically diverse a population as does the United States.
Governance matters as much for helping the poor as economic policy does.
The Philippine government's Heart Center in Manila attracts as many affluent patients as poor ones because of its high standards of medical expertise.
This is almost as dismal a showing as poor Greece.
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As poor a choice as Quantitative Easing was, the alternatives were worse.
Other manufacturing industries made the top of the list, too, supporting the idea that manufacturing in the US is not in as poor of shape as hypothesized.
But with low commodity prices and a projected trade deficit (to say nothing of Mr Yeltsin's unorthodox cabinet reshuffles), the government could be as poor this year as it was last.
"I didn't think we'd have as poor a run as we've had recently when I came here, but I don't think any of us thought we were going to win the SPL, " he said.
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And the truth of the matter is even as overcrowded as schools may be, as poor the computer equipment may be, if you took a bunch of kids right now from China or India and you put them in these classrooms, from their perspective these would be unbelievable schools.
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