But one thing always rankled him: the view westward from the 10-story, $70 million tower takes in one of the city's poorest slums.

I write this from a rundown house in the poorest slum in the Middle East.

They swell the ranks of what may be Colombia's poorest slums.

In 1845, Engels described one of the poorest slums, not far from the Gaskells' house:

The network decided to take the risk of making a story which took place in the poorest slums of the city in a realistic fashion.

Through his own experiences in the poorhouses, and witnessing the conditions of the poor in the city slums, he decided to make a difference for them.

The area, a mixture of poorer urban slums and middle-class dwellings, once home to many retired professionals, has been troubled for years.

A thousand television stations convey American-style talk shows and Western soaps to the poorest slums.

Recent studies show average family income per month in the poorer slums is about P6,500.00.

A few years ago the police in Jamaica were at war with violent gangs that roamed the desperately poor slums of the capital.