Yet despite their limitations, slums are also a hive of business activity, full of cottage industries that have sprung up organically, without assistance from the local government, the banking sector, or any part of the formal economy.
He clearly didn't understand the full impact of online activity.
While they are no longer consistently cheaper than any other departure time, red-eye flights typically travel east, allowing business travellers to travel overnight, arrive in an earlier timezone in the morning and not lose a full day of business activity.
Britain and France have told Iran privately that it must fulfil its obligations to the IAEA, and also its original promise of a full suspension of enrichment-related activity.
Like business, sport is an ultra-competitive activity, full of unforeseen factors, intense competition, and shrinking budgets.
For two-parent families the requirement is even stiffer: 75% must be in some form of work activity by the end of this year, and a full 90% by 1999 and thereafter.
Florida says that dense cities are full of creative and tolerant people who drive economic activity.
"We've agreed a tougher inspection regime, we've asked hospitals and schools and prisons to check with their suppliers that they are testing their products... if there has been criminal activity then there should be the full intervention of the law, " he told MPs during Prime Minister's Questions.
That estimate includes both direct and indirect jobs, and it includes not just a subset of the spending that has to be reported on through recipients, but the full set of Recovery Act activities that are out there in the field creating economic activity so far.
As a sport that was originally played as an after dinner game on the dining tables of 19th-century English homes, table tennis seems to have come full circle as a social activity.
As an activity, it is far removed from the compromises and negotiations that are the stuff of full-blown politics.
"I am determined that this criminal activity should be stopped and that anyone who has defrauded the customer must feel the full force of the law, " he said.
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