Word: bottomly
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...have survived because they are primarily fueled not by foreign ideology but by domestic realities: poverty, corruption, unemployment. Some 40% of Filipinos live on less than $2 a day, while a tenth of the 87 million population seeks work abroad. Corruption watchdog Transparency International ranks the Philippines near the bottom of its corruption index, alongside Nepal and Rwanda. The N.P.A. promotes communism as the only cure for the Philippines' many ills, but even Filipinos who reject its cause still share its grievances...
...this nation of 145 million people will become a fundamentalist Islamic state. Cynical observers see a more venal struggle-over who gets to control the country's coffers for the next few years. "[A lot of politicians] cast themselves in these mantles of competing nationalisms, but the bottom line is they're a bunch of crooks," says the Western diplomat. Reinforcing that impression, Bangladesh has had the unhappy distinction over the past five years of being ranked worst or near worst on Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. (As for the years the country was not the most...
...even if it didn't have a wider political significance, the murder of McCord, Jr., cut the bottom out of his father's life. The hard man's instinct was for revenge, but McCord's ex-wife and his two surviving sons extracted a promise that he would stay within the law. Bound by that commitment, he used his head, channeling his rage into a determination to bring the killers to justice...
...Parents also complain about providing goody bags, which can add another $3 to $25 dollars per kid to the cost of the party. "You end up spending hundreds of dollars and then find it all at the bottom of the toy box," says Ginny Loving, a mother of two in Virginia. Recently, Loving, Cadby and six of her friends got together and risked kids' ire by putting a moratorium on goody bags. "We told the girls they were too old for them," says Cadby. "That seemed to work...
...prices of the majors, from ExxonMobil to Chevron, have declined in recent weeks, since lower oil prices will invariably translate to lower corporate revenues. The silver lining: oil companies may be able to cut their costs by spending less for field services and drilling projects, helping shore up their bottom lines. "When pricing is weaker you tend not to get as aggressive with drilling," Haas says. Nonetheless, she adds, "it will be a challenging year" for the industry...