Compared with their peers in developed countries, Latin America's top ten cities are unsafe, suffer endemic housing shortages, poor schooling and weak health services.
But, economists say these were bitter pills that the government had to swallow to improve its weak financial health.
McCain's top economic adviser about a broad range of other issues, including the weak dollar, health care, social security and energy.
"Elections, weak coalition governments, the health of presidents and the emergence of newly aligned opposition parties could easily undermine stability, " warns a recent report by Peregrine Securities International.
In these examples, we can see in embryonic form how the message of a possible health benefit emerges from weak and inconsistent results.
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As a result, health care stocks remained weak even as the broad market, led by resurgent cyclical stocks such as Caterpillar ( CAT), mounted an exuberant recovery.
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In addition to 120 peer-reviewed scientific articles, I have written a scholarly book that examines how weak and inconsistent findings on potential health hazards tend to get a lot of attention and to be propagated by the media and by attention-seeking activists, like Leszczynski.
Beefing up the woefully weak cost-control mechanisms in the health bill will help (and might impress independent voters).
Mr Toledo has called in as prime minister Luis Solari, who heads his weak Peru Posible party and was briefly his health minister.
Others include low birth rates, pension and health-care reforms, corruption and weak public administration.
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Not only does the sagging, unstable dollar create the nominal illusion of bank health, that the dollar remains historically weak means that limited capital necessary to fund company and job creation is still locked up in the houses on which dead-banks walking teeter.
Friends of the Earth said the strategy was a "weak response to the very significant environmental, social and health problems caused by the food industry".
However, something is amiss, when, in the service of advocating a particular policy, activists and health authorities have to base their claims on a weak body of evidence and ignore a much stronger and more rigorous body of painstakingly accumulated data, which helps put the matter in perspective.
The actuaries' newest study estimates that health spending grew little last year, mostly because of the weak economy.
Although drugs are routinely subjected to testing by clinical trials before they are approved and recommended, diets typically have very weak evidence behind them even though they likely have a strong influence on health and disease.
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While concerns about the health of the economy remain and Wall Street hungers for cuts, rising concern about inflation and a weak dollar leave the Fed in an impossible squeeze, with little room to maneuver.
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