Word: poorest
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...banking industries--the fund sends in the economists, armed with several financing schemes. There are short-term loans to stanch the bleeding and stop the flight of capital. The fund also negotiates for longer, 10-year credit agreements, as well as so-called concessional loans, or grants, to the poorest countries...
Suddenly, any impression that Lewis may be running a halfway house for hungry kids in one of the poorest and most wretched neighborhoods in America is shattered by the blare of an electronic siren. The girls know the drill: they file neatly out of the red brick firehouse while Lewis and his crew snatch up their coats and helmets. In a flash, all five firemen are aboard their truck and rocketing out of the station to handle one of the 70 emergency calls they receive each week at one of the busiest station houses in Chicago. The 17 fire fighters...
...persuaded. Dr. Wallace Sampson, a member of the National Council Against Health Fraud, complained that the panel had not invited the naysayers. And although the studies presented were mostly conducted in Western countries using accepted scientific methods, several critics pointed out that the best-designed experiments showed the poorest results...
Here in Portugal, sometimes called the poorest country in Europe, we've been using electronic cash cards for more than two years. The kids at school have them; I use mine daily. Cash cards are all over the place. Does this mean that Portuguese villagers in the suburbs of Lisbon are technologically ahead of people in the Big Apple? ORMOND FANNON Cascais, Portugal...
...richest Marlin fan was no happier than one of the team's poorest fans. Miriam Hernandez, the mother Livan left behind in Cuba, can't afford a radio strong enough to pick up the broadcasts of her son's games, so she relies on a man who lives four floors below her to shout up the play-by-play. After Game 5, in which her son struck out 15 Braves to outduel Greg Maddux and win 2-1, she told the Herald, "God has touched his hands. How much I would give to be able...