Salinas says, unapologetically, that his bank charges customers--the poorest inhabitants of a poor nation--an average interest rate of 50% annually, or 1% per week.
Japanese officials hope the achievement, in a test conducted off Japan's central Pacific coast, will win their resource-poor nation a measure of energy independence.
We are a poor nation getting poorer and the main task of a post referendum Wales is to focus determination, policy and resources on reversing that trend, decisively.
Murder in punishable by death in Papua New Guinea, a poor tribal nation of 7 million people who are mostly subsistence farmers.
Obama halted all transfers to the poor Middle Eastern nation in 2010, after a man trained in Yemen was convicted in a failed bombing attempt of an airliner over Detroit.
Back in 1984, the U.S. wanted to help the poor Central American nation of Honduras, where democracy had only just replaced a military dictatorship, by allowing duty-free exports of socks whose toes were seamed there.
Critics also accused Mutharika of jeopardizing international relations and risking foreign aid that benefits the nation's poor.
It's been decades since we addressed the needs of our nation's poor.
Barack Obama's speech to the Hampton University Annual Ministers' Conference raised the combustible topic of the burning anger among the nation's poor African-Americans.
If stimulus could produce demand, then no nation would be poor.
And while Seoul is relatively easily navigable for non-Korean speakers, the nation still has poor tourism infrastructure, notes Kim Soo-yong, a manager handling inbound sales at Seoul-based Hanjin Travel.
Only a few decades ago, incredibly, some "experts" said Japan would forever be a poor, underdeveloped, mostly agricultural nation.
Firsthand, I saw the boom transform a rural, working poor society into a confident, aspirational nation.
In conclusion, with the uncertainty of Social Security and the lack of traditional pensions, we as a nation cannot afford to have poor or even good 401(k) plan.
He explained how it will take at a generation before the nation can fully address its poor health record and said there is no "short-term fix" to the problem.
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It is a community of conscience and an ideal place to report on our nation's commitment to the poor and how we're keeping it.
In recent days, Clinton's defense of the nation's health program for the poor, elderly and disabled has become central to the budget debate, and could force another government shutdown if no agreement is reached by Friday.
Mr. WALLIS: I'm talking regularly to Republicans and Democrats about how to focus the nation's attention on those who are poor.
What many people forget is that in the final year of his life, King was planning the Poor People's Campaign, looking to focus the nation on its poorest citizens.
Are we a nation that asks only the middle class and the poor to bear the burden?
While New Labour was relaxed about people getting richer, One Nation Labour is concerned about the gap between rich and poor.
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.
We also must demand greater oversight and fraud prevention in Medicare and Medicaid -- the nation's health care programs for the seniors, the poor and the disabled.
The MDC reported Monday that many of the nation's doctors and nurses have gone on strike because of poor salaries.
Opening the final day of the conference earlier, Plaid chair Helen Mary Jones said the party wanted to "bring the nation together" and reject rhetoric that "divides the rich and poor, that seeks to stigmatise the unemployed, that isolates those on benefits".
The U.K., along with every rich nation, must reign in these excesses until their social safety nets protect the truly poor, but no one else.
They were still a new denomination then, but had spread rapidly in the last fifty years around a nation of exploited factory workers, coal miners, and rural and inner-city poor.
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