Only 31% of families could provide all eight basic essential items, like heating and warm clothes.

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Mr Walkin said it took about four months to create the game which has about 2, 000 possible enemies, eight tough encounters with bosses and lots of different items players can gather to boost their fighting or defensive abilities.

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General Motors also yields more than 4%, and the stock is priced at eight times trailing 12-month earnings (before nonrecurring items).

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Earnings before special items came in at 63 cents per share, eight cents above analyst forecasts.

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