dirt-poor

IT MAY be a small, dirt-poor tropical country but Ronald Reagan once saw Nicaragua as a potentially "mortal threat" to the United States.

Free-wheeling, dirt-poor entrepreneurs might have made America great.

These people were dirt-poor by western standards, with no running water or electricity or any other modern convenience.

But it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.

The two kidnappers were dirt poor and had no experience, so they were quickly arrested by the police.

My parents also grew up in dirt-poor poverty even after things 'recovered'.

They're known as "ants, " for their willingness to work, their dirt-poor living conditions, and the seeming futility of their efforts.

To understand why wealthy people differ from well-fed animals, imagine yourself a dirt-poor (male) peasant 50 years ago.

I grew up dirt-poor in the middle of West Virginia on my grandparents' stories of the Great Depression.

But the economic growth has been uneven, leaving the countryside, where the majority of the population lives, dirt poor.

That came in Dantewada, a remote, forested, dirt-poor and sparsely populated district in the south of Chhattisgarh state.

Those of humble origins were born "dirt poor" , and the wealthy are often "filthy rich" .

Their ancestors had been dirt poor and never saw royalty, let alone hung around with them?

The young man overcame his dirt-poor upbringing and now owns his village's only shop.

Yes, if you drive an hour out of Beijing, you meet the vast dirt-poor third world of China.

Burkina Faso is landlocked, most of its 15m people are dirt-poor, and it has few natural resources.

Would the rest of us be better off if China was still dirt poor?

Malaysia and Thailand, once dirt-poor, are now middle-income countries.

IF THERE is one country in the Americas that cannot afford to suffer a natural disaster, it is dirt-poor and politically fragile Haiti.

Where would this dirt-poor Jack get a hundred dollars?

Entering the capital, only then knew here dirt-poor.

He was dirt poor, but he was honest and kind.

Only a few people at that time, more than 250 years ago in China was rich, but most used to be dirt poor.

In fact, he grew up dirt-poor in rural Tennessee.

It is unprecedented, considering 30 years ago, the country was dirt poor.

We sure are dirt poor.

Many people in retirement are going to be dirt poor because they didn't start saving early enough;