Unlike the traditional "ghetto", Asian satellite TV channels (now approaching 40) are far from poverty-based, attracting huge audiences across the Asian diaspora.
As a group, older Americans are far from poverty-stricken: A study done by AARP in 1993 showed that the median net worth of older (65+) households was well above the U.S. median.
First published in Vogue, the series showed great artists living in far-from-genteel poverty.
Yet they will never be far from the poverty which envelops the island.
But it is far from peace: poverty is rampant, society is polarized and men with guns linger at the fringes of her campaign stops.
But far from cutting poverty, this would merely condemn a large minority of the population, through no fault of their own, to the living standards of the past.
This is in line with Mowafi & Khawaja, who have stated that; "Far from simple, poverty is multidimensional in its symptoms, multivariate in its causes, dynamic in its trajectory, and quite complex in its relation to health"[ 42] (p.1).
But, just as TV interviews revealed her to have a sharper mind than Miss Brahms, whose witlessness was the wit of the part, Richard was herself very far from the poverty-stricken, sexless, socialist Pauline.
Obama is traveling to Vientiane, the country's capital, far from the crushing poverty plaguing rural villages, some of which are so marred by bomb craters that they resemble the surface of the moon.
That, despite all the cuts, governments must nevertheless still supplement inadequate wages, allot allowances, eke out with a grudging dole the daily toil of so many people, suggests that work, far from representing relief from poverty, is rather a confirmation of an older interpretation of life, that humanity is destined to "eat the bread of anxious toil".
