• It helps that she has supportive parents, she said and that they earn good livings.

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  • These people, known colloquially as bushmen, traditionally make their livings by hunting and gathering.

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  • Aspiring comics also earn decent livings from corporate gigs when not performing at the growing number of comedy clubs.

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  • Not enough for Activision or EA to care, but enough for a lot of developers to make good livings.

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  • After all, we make our livings informing people about financial issues and products.

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  • Balloons are far from a frivolous symbol of celebration -- there are real people earning their livings from balloon sales.

    CNN: Don't deflate the party

  • Jewish merchants, including the founders of Levi Strauss, tended to earn their livings supplying miners rather than risking life and limb in the mines.

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  • Sen Welfare is the combination of absolute livings standards and inequality, rising Sen Welfare means that inequality is falling as incomes rise.

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  • They are well acquainted with the gangs that roam the area, reeling off their names: the Americans, the Hard Livings, the Junky Funky Kids.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa

  • What are we doing around high-tech industries that can produce jobs and raise standards of livings for both the Russian people and the United States?

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  • Like many others who once made their livings trading in one of Chicago's many open-outcry exchanges, Harris has moved "upstairs, " and now trades exclusively by computer.

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  • Food website The Daily Meal asked dozens of respected chefs and restaurateurs nationwide to rate the food critics who make their livings rating them, reversing the norm.

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  • In the marketplace, even in politics, we recognize that competing interests in the long run produce a more fit economy and better livings standards, challenges in equitable distribution of benefits notwithstanding.

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  • The trend should continue well into the future on rising disposable income, higher standards of livings and a younger demographic where almost half the population is under 25 and eagerly looks forward to exploring the increasingly interconnected world.

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  • Corporate sponsors may be trying to burnish their companies' reputations (why else so free with shareholders' money?), but it's not as though today's patrons of the arts expect the florid lickspittlery once lavished on those who provided artists their livings.

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  • In both countries, but particularly in Ireland, there has been savage devaluation of an internal sort - wages and livings standards of workers have been slashed to a far greater extent than in the UK, which has improved the competitiveness of their businesses.

    BBC: It's trade or bust for Britain

  • In most states contact lenses can be sold only with proof of a valid prescription--either a written prescription or oral approval from an ophthalmologist or an optometrist, who make their livings largely from the stuff they sell, contact lenses among them.

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  • More than a few of my great journalist friends are making better livings than before, either hired by or contracting their services to vendors who have information to communicate and fewer vehicles for getting reported, especially thoroughly and accurately reported, by the traditional press.

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  • This was to be the pattern of his short life in and out of poorly paid jobs, squeezing out the meagrest of livings, spongeing off family and friends anything to keep body and soul together as he pursued the seemingly impossible task of living as a poet.

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  • It ranks with the original human exodus from Africa about 60, 000 years ago, which led to Homo sapiens becoming a global species, and the beginning of the industrial revolution, 250 years ago, when many people stopped being farmers and began to earn their livings in other ways.

    ECONOMIST: The earliest granaries

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