The prime minister gets an armour-plated Daimler, the deputy prime minister a Jaguar, cabinet ministers a Rover 800 or Vauxhall Omega and junior ministers (poor things) a Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall Vectra or Nissan Primera.
If you care about the poor of this world then buy things made by poor people in poor countries.
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But, by and large, India's rural poor were protected from the crisis by the same things that make them poor.
It included several bold benchmarks, among them things that poor Afghans crave: the disbanding of illegal militias, the creation of a competent police force, fair recognition of property rights and so on.
Let such low margin, low value things be made by poor people elsewhere while we concentrate on the high value, difficult to do, things.
It is, as we say, socially responsible to buy things made by poor people in poor countries.
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Which, to Bagehot's mind, brings things back to poor Mr Lilley.
For as my boss at the Adam Smith Institute, Madsen Pirie, repeatedly points out, the best way of alleviating poverty is to buy things made by poor people in poor countries.
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And yes, that is what the World Development Movement really does say, that speculators betting on agricultural food commodities, in futures, options and the like, produces rising food prices, greater volatility of food prices and that these things then kill poor people.
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The family blames Chevy Chase for poor investment returns, among other things.
Anything which costs more than this per tonne CO2 not emitted reduces the total resources available to us to do other things: vaccinate the poor, clothe the naked, roll as Scrooge McDuck in vaults of gold coins.
We live in a society where the rich people get things for free and the poor people have to pay for everything.
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Others try to avoid negative things like losing clients or poor feedback.
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Bill Easterly of New York University criticises the WDRs for not helping poor countries decide what to do when things are so uncertain.
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Sonesson notes that the majority of uneaten food in places like Sub-Saharan Africa is created at the point of production, largely as a consequence of things like spoiled crops or poor refrigeration.
He brings things to people, even poor people (often in the form of admirable programs like Toys for Tots.) Santa is supposed to instill joy and a giving (and receiving) spirit in kids and adults.
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But a jury bought Marble Slab's argument that they were poor operators who didn't do basic things like keep a balanced checkbook.
It cited low staffing levels, inadequate nursing, lack of equipment, lack of leadership, poor training and ineffective systems for identifying when things went wrong.
Instead, it blamed low staffing levels, inadequate nursing, lack of equipment, lack of leadership, poor training and ineffective systems for identifying when things went wrong.
But there's no doubt that even on a poor night - and I'm not saying he had a poor night against Liechtenstein - Wayne Rooney does things that put you on the edge of your seat.
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Investors who are concerned about the current state of the market, with the recent poor housing data and fears of inflation among other things, can be nervous about the correlations between asset classes.
And if the outsourcing is done when business results are poor, the intent is to never revisit doing those things again.
Since there are almost 400, 000 new cases of cervical cancer in poor countries each year, a better way of doing things would be welcome.
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"As a speaker of poor Croatian, I have a proud record of getting things calamitously wrong, " said the Match of the Day 2 host.
Their poor-world sisters, however, do not have things so easy.
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First a poor pass from Gary Caldwell allowed Itey Shechter to level things at 2-2 before a mix up in the six-yard box allowed Dwight Tiendalli to scramble home the winning goal.
The actor, who co-hosted with Anne Hathaway, seemed to be making a point of showing the audience in the theater, and at home, how little he cared about things like the Oscars, barely helping out poor Hathaway who was hosting her little heart out.
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When Vizio entered the PC market last year, we weren't gushing about its computers, per se, but we found ourselves rooting for the company anyway: for all it got wrong (flaky trackpads, poor battery life), it did a lot of things right.
The money that we use to do those things cannot be used to produce vaccines for the poor, feed the starving or clothe the naked.
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