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Significant changes must be made if government-owned and commercial ships are to be recycled in acceptable conditions. In some countries workers can be exposed to an extremely dangerous environment. Poor conditions can lead to significant pollution.

Since 1963, much has changed in America and the world. And much remains the same. The struggle for fairness, equal protection, equal opportunity, self-determination, the struggle to defend the poor and the needy, a fairer distribution of wealth and resources, continues in the face of the hostility of the vested interests, power and domination of the few.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Single mothers particularly may qualify for Medi-Cal, but the working poor are the main challenge,

She mastered skiing before we went all out on the downhill track. And she never takes any risks in training. If the conditions are bad, like poor visibility, she'll just stop ski practice.

Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, even those who go to local shelters, are risking their health and safety.

Millions still live poor and isolated lives. Millions more have found their lives disrupted, even destroyed, by global economic forces they do not understand and cannot control,

MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But ""mousquetaire"" is a might poor way to spell muskeeter.

Mr. DeLay has done good for this district but recently he's made some poor ethical choices. It's just time for us to move on.

Moving to the floor right now would be an act of extremely poor faith. If we are going to have a bipartisan agreement then folks should be supportive of the conference and have some patience.

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, and quick to make friends.

Maureen isn't based on a real person. She's a completely fictional creation, though some of the girls probably went through the same sort of things. Maureen just sort of absorbs all the bad stuff. She's the sort of person that everything happens to, poor thing.

May God be with you and bless you, May you see your children's children, May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings. May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.

Mechanically, I've struggled all year long with my arm angle, with my velocity and my effectiveness. That stems from poor mechanics. Tonight, I felt really comfortable on the mound.

One of the things we talked about was our need to be more purposeful with our transaction offense. When we take quick, it puts us in a poor position defensively. The guys did a great job of decision-making in transition. Our execution on offense put us in great position to guard and rebound.

One should look at consolidating the right to life instead of imposing the death penalty which has a very poor recognized effect in deterring crimes,

One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually had to witness this, knowing that when you get into a locomotive, there is no steering wheel. As you can imagine, they are pretty shook up about this whole thing, too.

Obviously, we didn't tackle and we weren't physical. We stopped them very few times. We were poor in every category. We gave up big plays, especially in the running game. We didn't get off the field on third down. We just didn't get the job done. We got whipped in every facet. We didn't get any turnovers. We have to go work, look at what we're doing everywhere and get better.

Of course people dont want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

No one knows how the poor man dines.

My ears do not hear, and my eyes are not beautiful. I am in such pain; I am a poor cripple, crying at Your Door.

My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for my brother and myself, some kind of business. He'd asked the owners of this course to call him if it ever came up for sale, and one day, they called. I had a scholarship offer to Ohio State and my dad said, 'Son, what do you want to do, cut grass or go to school?' I said, what do you want me to do, Dad? He said, 'Well, I can't afford any help.' I said, 'No problem, Dad, I'll help you cut grass.' Looking back, I think I made the right decision.

My dad was a poor farmer. We grew up around it.

Multinational/trust banks will probably broadly deliver on Wall Street estimates. However, we expect the quality of earnings to be poor as securities gains and other unusual items will commonly be used to offset weak trading results.

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.

Monetary policy can take a year, year and a half to rifle through the economy. Vehicle sales have held up somewhat better than what people have anticipated. You try to find balance ... When all is said and done, we don't anticipate the back end of this year to be a poor back end. We just continue to try to put forth what we think is the right balance. We're cautiously optimistic.

My goal was to be the poor man's Scott Stevens.

My hat's off to Mercy. They were on fire in the first half. We didn't get tired in the fourth quarter. We made some poor choices that ended up costing us.

My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.

My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.

Maybe it was a bit of a gamble playing Patrice. I am not singling anyone out. The defending was poor and that is what has cost us the game.

No one wants to appear a poor sport for not contributing, but when requests are made too frequently, employees may feel tapped out.

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.

New Orleans was a real poor city, a real illiterate city, ... But folks who came here just want a chance. We are working people.

never hire, nor retain on my staff someone convicted of such crimes against children. Councilor Burton has acknowledged and apologized for his mistake and poor judgment. If he does indeed seek re-election, this is a matter that his constituents will have to weigh in deciding whether to support him.

Obviously it was a win, but I didn't see a lot of things that were favorable out there tonight. Our bench play was poor in the first half.

Obviously it was a very poor start to the game from our side.

Obviously, it's very difficult to justify one action against the other when evacuees and local poor people are both in need.

Obviously he made some good throws, made some poor throws, got rid of the ball sometimes when he could, held the ball when he shouldn't,

Obesity is a national problem, and poor diet and insufficient exercise are recognized as the primary causes. But observers increasingly have pointed to our culture and our built environment as possible contributing factors -- specifically, the relationship of residential setting and urban sprawl to obesity.

No doubt, our first target would be to pick up the remaining wickets quickly but we are already thinking about the second innings. I think the second day was not too bad for us if you consider our first innings total. But all know that we have a very poor record in second innings.

Rich people have money, poor people have faith.

People want to be fair to athletes, and I think instant replay is one of the best things we've ever done. You want to win, but you don't want to win because somebody made a poor call.

Peter and I have been good friends for a long time and we've played a lot of golf together, in competition and otherwise. It's a relationship that has been ongoing for many, many years and once again, to have the opportunity to play as we will, it's going to be fun. I just hope I can keep him from being embarrassed by my poor golf.

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don't see them; they don't see me; we don't interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation.

People who are poor enough to receive LIHEAP benefits, such as elderly widows living below the poverty line, are not in a position to absorb a big increase in home heating costs. If these households don't receive more help paying their utility bills, many of them will face excruciating choices between heating their homes, paying the rent, having enough food to last through the month, and meeting other basic needs. Serious hardship is virtually certain to ensue.

Poor tackling. We had guys in position. We've just got to make that play.

Poor shooting from the field and free-throw line cost us the game. But we played very good defense and took them out of their game.

Poor recovery in broadband will hinder the development of an information society.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.

Poor performance hasn't tarnished the funds' image. It's still the right acquisition for the right buyer.

Poor performance hasn't tarnished the funds' image, ... It's still the right acquisition for the right buyer.

Poor people are going to get the short end of the stick, despite all the public sympathy. That's a great irony.

Poor oral health care can result in poor overall health.

Poor on-time performance is the airlines' fault to the extent that people want to buy their products - the fares are ridiculously low. There's a highly competitive market that benefits consumers because they'll get somewhere cheaply. They just might not get there on time.

Poor old Paul. He's getting it in the neck from Bono while he's touring up in Canada and he's getting it in the teeth from me,

Poor nutrition and illness cause students to miss school more often and to be less prepared to learn when they attend. Within the disadvantaged home, parents often have relationships with their children that are emotionally and physically, less healthy. These unhealthy relationships are reinforced in part by economic pressures that induce conflicts between parents and children.

Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,And a king aint satisfied till he rules everything.

Poor men take to the sea; the rich to the mountains

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English.

Poor J.P. Morgan. The company has got nailed on everything from Enron to Argentina and bad loans, ... But if we see the economy recover, the financial services will do well.

Poor Joe-Joe never got a chance to live a normal life and spent most of his life in an institution. Then he dies this way. The system that allowed this to happen should be held accountable.

Poor Jenkins, he was distraught yesterday. He was having a monster year. We're having fun; we're in the midst of a 10-game winning streak, and he was enjoying himself.

Poor in my youth, and in life's later scenes - Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enjoyed while young, denied the means; And naught when old enjoyed, denied the power

Poor information quality is a critical problem for companies today. Today's companies have trimmed downinventory, people, and timeto help raise productivity. Reliance on accurate information is growing. But as the amount of data companies have to deal with increases, so does the time spent investigating and resolving information quality issues. Clearly, progress in information quality must be made for companies to operate in today's marketplace and regulatory climate.

Poor guy, every time he plays, he's in a shootout. He played real well and saved the game at the end. I feel for him. He doesn't play that much and we can't find a way to win for him. You want to get two points, but we'll take the one.

Poor fitness is a direct consequence of physical inactivity.

Poor employment trends clearly are weighing on sentiment, ... The (IBD) data is consistent with a meaningful decline in the Michigan survey.

Poor Elsa Lanchester. She left England because it already had a queen - Victoria. And she wanted to be queen of the Charles Laughton household, once he became a star, but he already had the role.

Poor effort. Our second-half defense wasn't perfect, but boy, they showed a lot of effort. We found our fighters (in the second half), those who will fight for us on the field.

Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.

Poor countries must give an example of honesty, of ethics, so that we truly deserve the solidarity from millions and millions of people who would like to contribute but sometimes are not sure their money will go where it should go,

Popular nationalism and sometimes the Chinese government's manipulation of the issue, as well as Japan's poor handling of it over the years, sometimes supersede their rational economic interests. It's a dangerous pattern if it gets out of hand. So far it hasn't.

Personally, I think that the school did a poor job of letting the students know about our situation, and knowing that we had to leave our rooms. I had gotten here earlier in the afternoon (on Sunday) and while I was told about the problems with the Nest and was present for the outages, I was not aware that we were going to be moved.

Nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me: I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.

On the eve of the strike, we saw very, very poor performance.

One of the catalysts for the European moves is not only recent poor profitability but also rising fiber prices. They're closing the underperforming assets.

One of the biggest issues all-in-one users face when scanning documents on their multi-function devices is the poor image quality. Kodak is addressing this issue head-on by integrating its image-quality features into a networked device that essentially performs similar functions as other multi-function devices when connected to a network.

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

I was pleased with the team's effort. They worked hard, unfortunately we had a poor shooting night.

I was pleased with our effort for three of the four games, but we weren't happy with the third-place finish. We had one really poor game against Santa Margarita, but on that night they played very well and we did not.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

If we don't make the movement inclusive, then we minimize the potential of leveraging the power of black, brown, red and poor, ... can get us the necessary political and economic thrust that we need in order to change the harsh reality of the poor in the United States of America and elsewhere.

If we hit our free throws, the game is over. Our free-throw shooting was very poor today.

If these people hadn't been poor and black, they wouldn't have been left in New Orleans in the first place.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

I got out of my focus and tried to make a statement and that was really poor leadership on my part. I apologized to the team for that, and it's not going to happen again.

I grew up in a poor family and I remember the day I figured out I was poor,