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...automobiles, televisions and other luxuries. Between 1987 and 1993, while exports grew by roughly half, imports quadrupled. Meanwhile, Mexico's poor, perhaps 40% of the population, were still waiting % for the benefits of growth. On Jan. 1, 1994, the same day that NAFTA went into effect, some of the poorest began a 12-day uprising in the remote southern highlands of Chiapas. The government arrived at a shaky peace with the rebels, but it was just the start of a year that made investors further question Mexico's stability...
...Crimson's 3-1 start is markedly more impressive than last year's 7-1 overall record, the poorest finish for Harvard women's basket-ball in ten years...
...definitive history Three Centuries of Harvard, Samuel Eliot Morrison wrote that "the poorest people knew that they could call on Parkman in the middle of the night for some medical emergency and not fear of being rebuked...
Latimer also criticized "targeting," a process that makes only the poorest of the poor eligible for aid programs, saying that this system leads to "resentment and divisiveness." He argued that public assistance should be broadly based to "make sense of our massive resources...
Zhirinovsky: The very difficult economic situation in Russia was the result of activities by these forces. There is no such thing as a poor Jew in Russia . . . while the poorest people in Russia are the Russians...