There was good copy and even better images of poverty amid plenty: gap-toothed coal miners living in shacks, lovely rolling hills littered with the hulks of wrecked cars.
Of course, it's true that there are also plenty of gap year vagrants who make ski seasons feel like a succession of back-to-back freshers' weeks – overexcited, rudderless 19-year-olds rolling out of school and rocking up in the Alps without a clue what they're going to be doing for the next six months.
They have come round, but there are plenty of gaps to fill in.
The Health Service Journal's map of GP commissioning shows plenty of gaps.
There are plenty of gaps still being filled in the picture of global atmospheric change and the carbon cycle.
"I think that in midfield and at the back, there were often plenty of gaps and we could have got control of Denmark better.
Although there isn't much going on, with plenty of gaps between each vocal line, the whole thing sounds both huge and full of space.
Mapei sings the verses slowly, allowing plenty of gaps, and leaves the big plea until the brief but impassioned chorus: "Don't wait till I do wrong, don't wait till I put up a fight.
When Clinton served as Secretary of State, the foundation had a policy limiting foreign-government money to avoid conflicts, but there were plenty of gaps, and at least one case in which the rules were broken.
Despite a year of painstaking effort by trade officials to resolve differences between the organisation's members on the main business of the round agricultural tariffs and subsidies, and non-farm tariffs there were still plenty of gaps to be bridged.
I'm extremely pessimistic that GP-led clinical commissioning groups will be able to draw up contracts that will force a gaggle of private companies to provide anything other than a fragmented service, with plenty of gaps that fall between contracts.
