Bank of America (BAC) was able to swing to a profit with one-time accounting boosts, but core earnings remained poor.
But, ultimately, very little of that mattered because of the small and inconvenient facts that the country remained poor, pensions remained paltry, and jobs remained scarce.
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While the government in 2012 passed a comprehensive law to protect children from sexual offenses, its efforts to implement the law remained poor or nonexistent, activists say.
While results in its former strongholds of Italy and Spain remained poor, it made good progress in the more buoyant markets of Russia, Germany and the UK. Furthermore, improved brand awareness through its Olympics sponsorship should translate into increased sales in the second half of the year.
But even I knew that, despite all of the admirable progress that was made under Saakashvili, the country remained extremely poor and unequal and that its unemployment rate was shockingly high.
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At that time, slaves, women and the poor remained excluded from the ballot box.
She said the proposed stadium, identified by Fifa as a semi-final venue, could not be built when poor residents remained homeless.
But it found levels of illegal drugs in the training prison remained high and that poor behaviour of some inmates "was not always confronted".
He was brought up poor, and remained keenly aware of his working-class roots.
Their attitudes to the use of condoms aside, the Roman Catholics have remained fairly buoyant, speaking up for the poor and taking their cue from Rome.
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He had grown up poor, but free, and meat remained for him the avatar of prosperity.
"Although migrant workers are to a large extent adversely affected by the slow growth in the global economy, remittance volumes have remained remarkably resilient, providing a vital lifeline to not only poor families but a steady and reliable source of foreign currency in many poor remittances recipient countries, " agrees Hans Timmer, director of the bank's Development Prospects Group.
The couple remained on the island until 1930, when a desperately low population, crop failures and poor infrastructure, meant living there was no longer sustainable.
Zamora and Johnson remained a thorn in Perm's side as the Russian club looked to have brought their poor mid-season domestic form with them to London.
PDAs remained effective tools for retrieving bits of data on the run as long as they had been synced and poor tools for taking notes for an extended period of time.
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Were these countries to open themselves to the latest seeds--and even if more developed nations remained ideologically GMO-averse, thereby crimping exports--the four would reap productivity gains, dirt-poor Bangladesh most of all.
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