The mother scrapes by babysitting for young professionals in Williamsburg.
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His family scrapes by on his wife's income as a nurse.
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Shtewi scrapes by with occasional work as a porter or day laborer.
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Rudderless, he scrapes by as a perpetually overdue pizza delivery guy in Paris.
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Wana Bostic, 45, scrapes by on $11.50 an hour as a home health aide.
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On July 15 and 16, a full moon "scrapes by the ringed planet," according to NASA.
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He scrapes by on basically no money: biking everywhere, never buying coffee, never eating out, making his own home repairs.
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On one level, they are a traditional nuclear family, albeit a nuclear family which scrapes by with minor cons and pilferings.
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But remember: great specs and bullet points can fall victim to optimistic hyperbole, and Sony scrapes by with the XZ1's cameras.
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Paul Welshons, a Navy veteran who scrapes by financially by selling scrap metal, wrote in Sanders' name on the ballot in November.
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These days, he sleeps on the streets and scrapes by on coins from bus drivers who pay him to bring them passengers.
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Hoping to be a writer, he scrapes by as a temp; hoping for love, he strikes out embarrassingly with every at-bat.
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It begins vividly, in a gritty and monochromatic rendering of the Shibuya district in Tokyo, where a 9-year-old runaway, Ren, scrapes by.
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On the sliver that remains, Alice, a flinty woman in her 70s, scrapes by selling dusty novelty fireworks from a roadside table draped in ratty flag bunting.
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But "The Layover," which probably scrapes by thanks to a line here or there, plays as if it were designed to thumb its nose at the concept.
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Even "What Ever Happened" was released three years before the film came out, and it still feels like it just scrapes by in it's inclusion on the soundtrack.
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This is now officially one fewer guaranteed platform — which, yes, should be open to many genres — for noncommercial work, which scrapes by on grants, fellowships, commissions and, yes, awards.
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Despite the revolution's achievements in social indicators like education, much of Cuba's population scrapes by on state wages, which at around $30 a month are a source of common grumbles.
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We have an out-of-state friend who lives on government assistance and barely scrapes by, so every month we put some money ($40) in an account he can access.
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Billionaires should not exist — at least not in their present numbers, with their current globe-swallowing power, garnering this level of adulation, while the rest of the economy scrapes by.
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Brazilian judges, who can easily make about $43,000 a year, have been especially outspoken in demanding raises in a country where roughly half the population scrapes by on a minimum wage of about $4,000.
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Like many a young creative attempting to make it in New York, Jessica scrapes by, gets told "no" all the time (she has a wall of rejection letters), and comes from a family that finds her aspirations confounding.
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That's how he's built a sort of church that, from an economic standpoint, barely scrapes by, but thrives on the philosophy of voluntary simplicity and minimalism, pushed to an extreme in order to create a special connection with its ravers.
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Mar 023 HEALTH-CHINA/AUSTRIA Austria's interior, health ministers hold news conference on corona developments 202 Mar 200:220 ET / 11:30 GMT HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA Colombia coronavirus measures stoke fear among Venezuelan migrants Maricarmel Luho lovingly cradles her three-month-old baby as passerby on a busy Bogota street brush past the spot where her young family scrapes by begging and selling candy.
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It received a nomination from the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards for best comedy show at the festival in 2012. Acaster began appearing on his friend Josh Widdicombe's radio programme on XFM in 2012, initially being asked to share a story about a strange situation he'd got himself into in the past. His first story proved popular enough that he was asked to continue sharing a story each week. These stories, dubbed "scrapes" by Josh and later "classic scrapes" by the listeners of the programme, became a recurring segment, known as "James Acaster's Classic Scrapes".
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He puts on a lazy act and scrapes by as an underachiever, but he grows to be very responsible and caring. -Au Yeung Lok (Don Li) Ah Lok is Ah Yat's younger brother and deemed the cutest guy of the school year. He is an overachiever and an excellent fencer, giving him the position of Fencing Club president. He was one of the many love interests of Lam Lam.
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In 1981, New Jersey leased Farberware's factory building, the borough's largest, to U.S. Industries, which pledged to operate for 25 years. U.S. Industries, however, sold the Farberware brand to Boston company, Syratech Corporation in 1993. In 1992, Farberware Millennium, an anti-scratch anti-stick pan, had been described as "one of the finest cookware innovations". After testing "1,000 back-and-forth scrapes by a metal spatula" the Millennium pan did not scratch.
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The wealthy and eccentric Tobler, a Geheimrat and owner of various businesses, enters and wins a competition started by one of his businesses. Using the pseudonym, Schlüter, he wins the second prize: a ten-day stay at the luxurious Grand Hotel in Bruckbeuren in the Alps. The first prize is won by Dr. Fritz Hagedorn, an unemployed copywriter, who lives with his widowed mother and scrapes by on occasional work. Before claiming the prize, Tobler transforms himself into Schlüter and assumes the persona of a poor man.
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In 1986 Eden Daniels, a 26 year old African-American woman decides to move to Paris to follow in the steps of other artists she's admired and try to become a writer. Eden arrives in Paris when a wave of terrorism sparks an anti-immigrant backlash. Nevertheless, she is able to find work in the ex-pat community and works as an artist's model, an au-pair and a poet's assistant. As she scrapes by Eden dreams of encountering one of her literary heroes, James Baldwin who still lives in Paris and who many of her employers have had brief encounters with.
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He scrapes by on day labor and a short-term work ethic. He’s got no interest in regular work, going back to college, doing anything, or maintaining a relationship. Through him we meet other people who are just as broken, though less aware of their situation, and we view the world the narrator lives in: a post 9/11 two-dimensional world without morality or ethics, where people get screwed over whether they do the right thing or not; a world of drug dealers, abused wives, manipulated boy toys, bookies, hookers, crooked cops, and a cocaine-addled bar owner.
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Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas was written by Russell Hoban and illustrated by his then-wife, Lillian Hoban, in 1969. The book was published in 1971 by Parents' Magazine Press. The story tells of Emmet Otter and his Ma, a widow who scrapes by on the small amount of money she gets from doing laundry and that Emmet gets from doing odd jobs around their home in the town of Frogtown Hollow despite both of them often being cheated. Some of the people who cheated them are Old Lady Possum and Gretchen Fox (the wife of Mayor Harrison Fox).
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Iri was filmed in the industrial city of Iksan, making it Zhang's first movie set in South Korea. It starred Uhm Tae-woong and Yoon Jin-seo as a taxi driver and his mentally challenged sister who are still struggling thirty years later with the aftermath of the Iri Station Explosion in 1977. Iri competed at the 3rd Rome Film Festival, and was released in South Korean theaters in 2008 together with its companion piece Chongqing, about a young woman who barely scrapes by as a language teacher and lives with her unemployed father in populous Chongqing.
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Following an introduction by Kermit the Frog, the story tells of Emmet Otter and his Ma, a widow who scrapes by on the small amount of money she gets from doing laundry and that Emmet gets from doing odd jobs around their home in the town of Frogtown Hollow despite both of them often being cheated. Some of the people who cheated them are Old Lady Possum and Gretchen Fox (the wife of Mayor Harrison Fox) of Waterville. As Christmas approaches, they hear of a talent contest in the nearby town of Waterville with a grand prize of $50, and separately decide to enter to buy store-bought presents for each other: an elaborate guitar for Emmet or a piano for Ma. However, in a twist on The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, they must sacrifice each other's livelihood for the talent contest. Ma hocks Emmet's tools for dress fabric while Emmet turns Ma's washtub into a washtub bass for a jug band.
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