It is a collection of linked short stories about the lives of very rich and very poor people in Pakistan.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We're trying to get them to change the structure of the company. We think the board is a very poor board there and we're trying to change what happens.

我们正在设法改变,公司结构我们觉得那个公司的董事会经营的,非常糟糕,我们正在设法改变现状。

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Meysy paused, and then said: "The poor woman is very unhappy.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Meysy paused,and then said: "The poor woman is very unhappy.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

What is clear is that many people are living in very poor accommodations."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

So yes,while we have national AIDS programs, while countries are attempting to draw up their national strategies, coverage,in terms of treatment, voluntary counseling and testing and even prevention, is very,very poor.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"The thing that stands in the way of a global agreement is the incredible inequity and the gulf between rich and poor which makes the future look very different, depending on where you live.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"It is a very poor country," "If we were to essentially close our markets to their products we could cause a great deal of hardship in the country and cause thousands of Hondurans to lose their jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

The national reports clearly, from 20 countries out of the 21 countries in the region, Iraq was the only country that could not report, for understandable reasons - all 20 countries have shown that they have weak programs, weak surveillance, and that the coverage is very,very poor.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"We've got to have an indication from President Karzai his inauguration comes very soon that he will tackle the very problems that have given some succor to the Taliban and that is corruption, and that is poor governance and that is the quality of district governors,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.13