One thing they have in common is their poverty.

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There is also much official sympathy for the plight of the Central American migrants, and a common understanding of the poverty that they are trying to escape.

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The underlying question posed by Mr Sollers is how you can be happy, reconciling physical love with passion, when sexual disappointment, sadness and cultural poverty are so common.

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Koirala said that poverty was the lowest common denominator in this equation.

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Finding herself among people wracked by poverty but bound by common struggles, Joan learned to beg with her baby from cars stuck in traffic and struggled to keep warm on rainy nights.

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Urban poverty, a too-common remnant of the 1997 financial crisis, ought to be giving way to GDP growth statistics that are respectable for Southeast Asia.

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They realize that all of us share a joint destiny, a common destiny, that we need to win the war against poverty.

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Water is the common thread that links together much of what you addressed: poverty reduction, food security, and reducing vulnerability to disasters.

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Strife is getting more common in lower-middle income countries, and weak government is at least as big a predictor of violence as poverty itself.

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