"Their rather creaky national telecommunications system is currently comprised of equipment dating back to the 1950s and 60s," Benson said.
He said South America learned a hard lesson in the 1980s: Its archaic economies, run by creaky state bureaucracies, must be overhauled if it is to compete in the world marketplace.
And who says creaky shows cannot conceal one or two great songs? Fisher reviles English musicals, the 'cod-operetta Ivor Novello style', and concentrates on American failures, which he finds more interesting.
I have a few here who could make half a million a year." The lure of big bucks and Hulk Hogan fame brings wrestlers from around the country to Sharpe's creaky gym in this small refinery town southwest of Philadelphia in southern New Jersey.
Telephone service outside greater Manila and the province of Cebu is creaky, and restaurants, shopping and other attractions for visitors are sparse.
The complexity of the alleged abuses has proved too much for the country's creaky legal system.