Word: basic
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...Minister's office as a communications officer, Mendon?a can wait half a day for an X ray - then be sent home without even being seen. The country has a heart-breaking child mortality rate; average life expectancy is 57 years. "There is so much this country still needs in basic services," he says...
...past two years, Mendon?a has trekked through remote areas in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, explaining to skeptical village chiefs the government's progress in the Timor Sea negotiations and its plans to meet the basic needs of citizens and save half the expected revenues in a fund for future generations - like the thousand young Catholics gathered at a conference in Ermera, a coffee-growing area some 50 km from Dili. It's taken Prime Minister Alkatiri and his escort almost three hours to make the hazardous road journey here, but at the end of his pep talk, he takes...
Responsible for maintaining the FATAWE website, drawing up basic policies and emergency contact information, arranging hiking groups and organizing base camp, Michalow estimated that he invested around 200 hours in preparation for the hike—and missed 10 days worth of class...
...estimated that expenses of the basic equipment and base camp costs clocked in around...
...members of the battalion are former day laborers who have not undergone physical or medical screening. They are supposed to show up at 8:30 a.m., though there is no penalty for tardiness. After a short workout, a good deal of horseplay and some training, the Iraqis take on basic duties, like manning traffic-control checkpoints. At 2 p.m. they eat lunch and go home. The soldiers working with the Iraqis--senior officers insisted they be identified only as "advisers"--do not hold out much hope that their charges will be prepared to take over from the U.S. anytime soon...