Again, seen in the context of society's expectations, the most basic service for those with end-stage renal disease would include free dialysis and could potentially include at most one attempt at kidney transplantation.
The tourist tax, which currently is used for tourism promotion, will instead be directed towards providing basic services for the neighbourhoods most affected by the influx of visitors.
The Pentagon insists that it had good management motives in reversing Mr. Smith and heeding KBR's warning that penalties would erode basic services for the troops.
The new project will mean jobs, an increase in property values and improved basic services for the area, including roads and piped water, said Mr. Fallas Ramírez, the agronomist.
The UN has warned that foreign aid organisations will not be able to pick up the slack and that if there is a shortfall, international law requires Israel, as the occupying power, to provide basic services for the Palestinians.
I do not wish to be a member of a group whose care extravagance is likely to take precedence over and outbid the basic services for the truly vulnerable – and my grandchildren.
Demographers predict that within two decades the shrinking labor force will make pension taxes and health care costs untenable, not to mention that there will not be enough workers to provide basic services for the elderly.
Neven Mimica, the EU commissioner for international cooperation and development, said Europe remained committed to providing emergency assistance to the people of Burundi and was preparing projects to ensure basic services for the population, but without channelling resources through the government.
The Defense Contract Management Agency, the Pentagon agency in charge of supervising contractors in Iraq, determined in August that KBR, the Houston-based company that provides virtually all basic services for the American military in both Iraq and Afghanistan, has been guilty of "serious contractual noncompliance" in Iraq, the officials said.
