Word: poorest
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...American tradition. "What's great about this country," Andy Warhol wrote, "is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink a Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor...
...season full of surprises ends with the biggest one yet. The Braves, baseball's poorest team last year, and the Minnesota Twins, the only other team this century to go from worst to first, meet in the World Series starting tomorrow night in the Metrodome...
...people of Chelsea have become accustomed to uncertainty over the years. Chelsea is one of the poorest municipalities in the state-over half of the students who enter the school system leave without a diploma. This summer, the city's fate was put into the hands of James P. Carlin, a state appointed receiver. The city's plight is one many will be watching closely...
Economic sanctions, though often applied, only rarely force a determined rogue government to mend its ways. Haiti, however, is almost without domestic resources. It is the poorest country in the hemisphere, and 60% of its 6 million people are unemployed. Without aid from abroad, its economic survival is in question. An economist in Port-au-Prince says the military leaders have "grabbed hot steel and they are going to get burned...
...television for only about 12 years now, which is really very short compared with the rest of the world. But, of course, it is the most powerful medium in the world, and you'll find in South Africa now television aerials sticking up from shacks in the poorest black townships. In that context, books would come low down on the list of priorities. On the other hand, because there are many people who really are not book literate, there is an immense hunger. There are so many very intelligent young people who would like to be not only more equipped...