Word: poorest
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...whistling a Woody Guthrie tune. Never mind if you?re in the developing world and have have to swallow the fact that the combined worth of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Paul Allen ($156 billion) is greater than the combined GNP of the world?s 43 poorest countries...
...after all? Surely this moment in American history is as close to paradise as conservatives could ever have dreamed. The budget is not just balanced; it is running a surplus so big that it could total $6 trillion over the next 15 years. A Democratic President travels to the poorest corners of the country, such a convert to the miracles of private enterprise that he brings with him not a bushel of federal promises but a bunch of business leaders whom he has deputized to solve the problems of the poor, with maybe a tax break...
...biggest challenge, perhaps, is to make sure that the world directs adequate scientific thinking and technological development to the key issues of disease, food supply, climate change and environmental degradation facing the poorest countries. This step though will require a deeper ethical commitment around the world to a more wise and equitable sharing of our global bounty." Outgoing Director of Harvard Institute for International Development
...Milosevic seemed to be winning, at least by his peculiar calculus. He has foisted a barbarous humanitarian crisis upon his neighbors and the European continent. The sight of thousands upon thousands of dazed, weeping refugees fleeing for their lives into the region's poorest, least stable states set off shock waves in the West. The states themselves--particularly Macedonia and Montenegro--trembled at the very real possibility that Kosovo's instability was contagious...
Just who is being saved by the dynamic trio's efforts? Unless we cancel the debts of the poorest nations so that resources can be invested in health and education, we are simply bailing water without fixing the leak. STEPHEN VALK Atlanta...