Dirt poor, Hum Huy ekes out a living farming with his wife, eight children and brother.

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Refusing to serve the Fascist government, he ekes out a living as a bounty hunter tracking down pirates.

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Klout ekes out a tiny revenue on these marketing campaign deals.

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But the average pharmacy ekes out a 2% profit on prescriptions, and those profits are being squeezed further as health plans and managed care organizations demand ever-deeper discounts.

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For Iraq, persuading the world that it is worth continuing with inspections, however slowly it ekes out its co-operation with them, is its main diplomatic line of defence against a war.

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Sudeith's business is too small to support a showroom, so he ekes out a living selling at flea markets in Manhattan and Brooklyn and over his Web site, www.warrug.com, the best source of war rug images on the Internet.

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