Mr Chavez's government aims to get 50, 000 low-cost dwellings built this year.
This is also how we should think of the sprawling new slums of the developing world: not as doomed, deforming environments but as the low-cost housing built for (and by) displaced, formerly rural, people drawn into the modern urbanized economy and energetically aspiring to a better life.
It is described by the United States Air Force as the modern backbone of America's long-range bomber force, built for low-level, high-speed missions.
The manufacturing base in China was initially built on low-cost and lower-skill jobs, such as clothing and footwear.
Yet the Hemi, built in low-wage Mexico, costs 5% to 10% less to manufacture than a modern dual overhead cam V8.
To help get people out of the sprawling, squalid shanty towns it has built 2.7m low-cost homes, housing around 10m people.
The existing system for funding paid long-term supports and services is built on a wobbly three-legged stool: low private savings, an underfunded Medicaid program, and a hobbled private long-term care insurance market.
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So far, consumers have been reluctant to embrace digital imaging, mainly because of operational complexity, built-in obsolescence and low image quality.
An aircraft pilot has said he is "seriously concerned" for the safety of low-flying aircraft if a wind farm is built near Bristol.
Encryptor, a cleantech start-up company based in Plano, TX, is commercializing the underlying technology in the form of a low-cost electronic chip that can be easily built into appliances.
After Guan qualified for the Masters, Ho, the Lion Lake owner, built a practice green with low-cut grass to match the speed of Augusta National's, and allowed only Guan to play on it.
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The trading profits that have been so crucial to the big banks in recent years appear to have been hit as the September stock-market rally was built on relatively low trading volume and trading spreads have narrowed.
Bond insurers such as MBIA and Ambac Financial Group built up their businesses by insuring low-risk municipal bonds, but during the nation's housing boom, these and other bond insurers invested heavily in subprime and other mortgage-backed investments, and now they're paying the price.
Once built, nuclear reactors produce lots of low-cost power.
But we will be making sure that the next generation of them, the next set of power plants to be built for example, will be low or non-carbon emitting.
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This is especially useful in low-light situations like party shots, indoors or dusk where built-in flashes have historically struggled to reach far-away subjects and capture all important details of a scene.
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The photos shared on the app are meant to be taken with the built-in cameras on mobile devices and their low resolution a perfect match for Instagram's grainy film filters.
Around 70% of Brazilians own their own homes, but many of these (around 85%, Mr Paim de Andrade estimates) are self-built one room at a time, and are of low quality.
The posts hit by NATO on Saturday are built on the Salala mountain, part of a chain of low-lying rugged mountains that divide Pakistan from Afghanistan.
With a built-in Fujinon wide angle 23x zoom lens, superior low-light performance, and excellent sensitivity (F11 at 2000 lux), the GY-HM650 has ideal optics for challenging shooting environments.
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Most cell phone handsets come with a game or two built into the system, but they're usually pretty low-tech or limited in scope, so serious gamers usually download their own.
The result is that, although developers often promise to include low-cost housing as part of new developments, the expensive houses generally get built first because they are the most profitable, and homes for poorer families stay stuck on the drawing-board.
To complement the speed of the f1.8 lens, the camera's low-light mode automatically adjusts the ISO sensitivity up to ISO 12, 800 to take sharp, full-resolution photos in dim conditions, and an easily accessible built-in pop-up flash and AF illuminator brightens low-lit subjects, reduces red-eye and fills in dark areas.
To lock in low long-term power costs, Higgins scavenged carrion from the meltdown: power plants built by electricity producers when prices were high.
To get creative in challenging light, a built-in pop-up flash supplies extra lighting when capturing images in low-light situations or to provide a fill flash to eliminate shadows.
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The Pre Rec (retro cache) feature continuously records and stores up to five seconds of footage in cache memory to help prevent missed shots of breaking news, while a second trigger and servo zoom control on the built-in handle makes it easy to record while holding the camera at low or high angles.
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Built with the Unreal 3 engine, the game looks remarkably good given its low indie-studio budget.
Unlike consumer grade smart phones that yield low performance and high failure rates when force-fit into line of business applications, the CS40 is built on Windows Embedded Handheld technologies including the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform and is designed for mobile professionals who need versatile and reliable access and acquisition of information in real-time, at the point of work.
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