1.   Despite widespread poverty, high-ranking officials, military officers, and others with connections lived well.

2.   The region, with its widespread poverty, provided fertile ground for revolutionary activists.

3.   The region, with its widespread poverty, provided fertile ground for revolutionary activitists.

4.   A surge in deaths, particularly among adult men, could be attributed to the erosion of medical services, widespread poverty and stress, the U.N. report said.

5.   A Western-educated economist who steered economic policy under Mandela, he has vowed a more aggressive approach to fighting widespread poverty than his predecessor took.

6.   Both are developing countries that suffer widespread poverty and yawning chasms between rich and poor.

7.   But Bush has spent little time talking about the widespread poverty along the border, even as his opponents have tried to make it a campaign issue.

8.   But there is also widespread poverty, illiteracy and rising inequalities that call into question the possibility of sustaining the growth India wants to achieve.

9.   But there is also widespread poverty, illiteracy and rising inequalities that call into question the sustainability of the growth India wants to achieve.

10.   Cambodia is a nation still struggling toward normalcy, burdened by a continuing insurgency, political instability and widespread poverty.