Dilapidated teaching facilities, such as old blackboards and even a lack of benches, can hinder educational progress in schools through creating a poor learning environment.
Wal-Mart, which many consider to be an economic indicator in and of itself, reported decent results, but domestic growth was muted suggesting a poor economic environment.
In a poor market environment like we are experiencing right now, the price depreciation of dividend-paying stocks can completely displace the gains made from the dividends.
Always keep in mind that even when the Conference Board reading of Consumer Confidence is on the rise, the overall figure may indicate a poor retail environment.
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This happens in a poor market environment because institutional investors finally take their profits or start to shift their vast portfolios into more defensive stocks, such as utilities, food, etc.
Cisco continues to outperform rivals such as Riverbed and Juniper, which have had a tough time gaining traction amid the poor enterprise spending environment.
He'll probably strike pro-life notes that Republicans can exploit, but he'll also likely accent peace, concern for the poor and the environment, issues that generally skew to the Democrats.
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Calculate carbon emissions for a road trip or flight and buy offsets to fund worldwide projects that employ those in poverty, such as tree-planting programmes that hire low-income workers, or projects that help both the poor and the environment by distributing fuel-efficient stoves, as opposed to wood-burning ones used in most homes in developing countries.
The wrong kind of growth, pursued too single-mindedly, fails to help the poor and destroys the environment.
If the economic environment remains poor, then buyers and banks will hold back.
This is all good for the beneficiaries of the celebrity foundations, from poor kids to the environment and spiritual concerns.
But since the local-food movement looks suspiciously like old-fashioned protectionism masquerading as concern for the environment, helping poor countries is presumably not the point.
This "environmental determinism, " as housing historian Alexander von Hoffman calls it, led reformers to try to improve the behavior and prospects of the poor by replacing the slum environment altogether.
The report went on to say the building was badly maintained and the environment was of a poor standard.
Of course management should attend analyst and shareholder meetings to explain the strategy but the need to give a guidance that would be met 3 months hence in an environment where visibility was poor could be dispensed with.
Mr Singer's influence extends to the world beyond the ivory tower partly because he writes with such lucidity and quiet passion about genuinely pressing questions: the environment, the rich-poor divide, cruelty to animals, human suffering.
Every CEO recognizes the importance of winning buy-in for his or her vision from the board, executive committee, employees, and other critical groups, but in a high-stakes, high-pressure environment, many do a poor job of it.
The other category under consideration involved financial products said to promote industries that harm the globe - be it the environment or the world's poor.
Given the appalling lack of sanitation, it is not surprising that awareness about health and the environment was low among India's poor.
Second, although the amount (weight) of herbicides applied has increased in recent years, that parameter is a poor measure of impacts on human health or the natural environment.
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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.
Our environment is also a big contributor to Americans' poor health, the panel said.
The company blamed "the deteriorated environment in the automotive sector in Europe" for the poor results.
Barbara Young, chief executive of the Environment Agency, said it was disturbing that the flood defences were graded in poor condition in many places.
The poor settle where they can and, once settled, they (and others) change the environment.
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.
They support an environment conducive to research and development and the advanced technologies that conquer disease, hunger, poor sanitation and the other evils that make high population growth worrisome.
He has voted for bills protecting the environment, subsidising health care for the working disabled and securing low-rent housing for the poor.
The Environment Agency said surveys had shown the steel structure of Molesey Weir B in Surrey was in poor condition and needed to be replaced.
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