The problems remain immense rural conditions are grim, there is one general practitioner for every twenty-two thousand people, and people still go to hospitals with envelopes of cash to "tip" the doctors but on the basic economic and philosophical questions, such as whether the country is stronger if everyone is insured, the debate ended years ago.
The problems remain immense — rural conditions are grim, there is one general practitioner for every twenty-two thousand people, and people still go to hospitals with envelopes of cash to "tip" the doctors — but on the basic economic and philosophical questions, such as whether the country is stronger if everyone is insured, the debate ended years ago.
So conditions are grim when, on New Year's Day, 1935, the English economist John Maynard Keynes mails a letter to George Bernard Shaw.
Back home, he says, conditions are grim and wages low.
In theory, they are entitled to a place in a state-run hostel, but conditions are grim and dangerous.
Chickens raised for meat roam within a barn, so while conditions are grim, these chickens are at least better off than egg-laying hens crowded into tiny cages.
And it is partly because living conditions are grim in Chinese cities, where workers must make do without a social safety net.
Winkler said prosecuting more than 1,000 pirates and transferring them to Somali prisons, where conditions are grim, appeared to be having a preventive effect.
Nato and its Afghan allies are still running into pockets of stiff resistance in Marjah and conditions are grim for civilians, with one local resident telling French news agency AFP that "people have come out of their homes and into a desert, without any food or water".
