The year was 1935 and the destination for Greene, then just 30 years old, was Liberia, the troublesome African stepchild of America, a place so remote it had no roads and scant infrastructure.
There is scant infrastructure in Haiti of any kind and the country is still struggling to find its footing nearly seven years after the devastating quake.
It was an undertaking with enormous logistical challenges, including the country's size (roughly that of Western Europe ), scant infrastructure, and a rainy season limiting access to remote areas.
But details are scant, even as many states have scores of "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects set to be axed.Cushioning America's downturn will demand fiscal boldness, but that does not mean eschewing simple, speedy solutions.
Infrastructure is scant, government support is provided grudgingly, and sports associations are rife with politicking.
In Bangalore, Karnataka's capital, the government has paid scant attention to creating infrastructure or providing basic services like a reliable water supply and garbage clearance.
Douglas Oakervee said that the problem of scant capacity and creaking infrastructure was not just one affecting railways but the entire national transport system.
Aside from scant agricultural training, weak infrastructure and diseases like black pod that threaten the trees, the West African cocoa farmers are hobbled by the size of their plots.
In poor urban outskirts, isolated towns and rural locales -- where infrastructure is scant, access to capital spotty at best and technical expertise, tools and machinery virtually nonexistent -- 3-D-printing provides a desperately needed opportunity for building a Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure.
7 Outbreaks in remote rural areas were of special concern, because of both scant resources and limited infrastructure to treat cases and implement cholera prevention activities.
They are engineers with creative souls, experts at systems, infrastructure and putting scant resources to their best use.
