Although business gurus have long theorized that there are lucrative profits to be made from serving the world's poor, realizing such ambitions has proved challenging.
Even the poorest of Cambodia's poor realize this.
When it came to slavery of blacks in the US and the Caribbean in the 18th century, this Freaky Friday tradition didn't always play out as a progressive utopia where rich and poor realize we're all humans who breathe the same air and should live harmoniously.
Too late, poor Hutcherson realized he'd put his foot in his mouth.
Landlords only able to rent to poor people realized they were better off burning their buildings and collecting insurance.
When, in another forward jump, this time to Mary's junior year of college, she encounters a character with the name Le Poer in a French literature class — "a variation of le pauvre: the pathetic, the pitiable, the poor" — she realizes that Elwood's life could have been a metaphor for the ravaged, Rust-Belt city where they grew up.
Significantly, the study found that poorer girls realized their first sexual encounter would probably be coerced and violent.
One is Mary Abernathy, a community activist who gave up a lucrative career in the fashion industry to help poor families realize their dream of home ownership.
It is without a doubt the aspiration of all Venezuelans — whether aligned with or opposed to Mr. Chávez, whether soldier or civilian, Catholic or evangelical, rich or poor — to realize the potential of a nation as promising as theirs.
On this Earth Day, all of us, rich and poor, must realize that we share the same planet and commit ourselves not to contest its resources, but to work together to use them in a sustainable way.
