Meanwhile, foreign banks operating in Cyprus will probably head for the hills, knowing that an economy already in recession will probably now contract at a rate of knots - causing penury to many.
Here again, Thailand's experience shows how penury caused by medical costs can fall rapidly once UHC is established.
Not only do you have to deal with hecklers, and promoters trying to rip you off, you've also got the ever-present threat of penury caused by unexpected illness or accidents (if you're not able to get behind the mic, you won't be bringing in any money).
Obama's biggest political problem, apart from the sluggish economy and his own campaign's relative penury, has been morale.
They intended, he suggested, to drive her into penury and then obtain the rights.
Cook, famously, would drive manufacturers of antiperspirants into penury.
The era of the Great Depression and World War II was another -- a decade-and-a-half-long ordeal when widely shared penury and peril combined to nurture a feeling of common cause and to inspire a truly healthy sense of patriotic feeling.
Yes, at a time of a policy of planned penury for the poorest in our society, including shameful cuts in welfare benefits, causing misery for hundreds of thousands of citizens, the salary of the governor of the Bank of England will go up by more than 50% next July, and be accompanied by pension contributions and "relocation and housing expenses".
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