She became a teacher in 1982, struggling to get by on her government salary.
It will mean many will still have to struggle to get by on their own until their situation worsens.
In fact, some salespeople could hardly get by on their base salaries alone, but they bring in close to six figures in commissions each year.
Advantage: If you can get by on just the dividends plus a 2% withdrawal of capital, you are likely to leave a nice pot for your heirs.
She told me what a difference that money could make for her today as she was scrimping to get by on her very small monthly social security check.
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They include high levels of job protection for those lucky or old enough to have a permanent contract (younger workers often have to get by on temporary ones).
New York City can get by on slightly more electric energy than it is using now, about 57 TWh gross and 46 TWh net of PV production on buildings.
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The elderly, many of whom get by on a combination of Social Security and investment income, are suffering more than any other group from our current low-interest rate fiscal environment.
According to psychologists at the University of Berkley in California, those who are overly confident and masters at self-promotion tend to trump those who simply get by on hard work alone.
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"When you're a small pizza operator trying to get by on tight margins, regulations like this really affect your bottom line, hurting your ability to grow and hire, " Domino's Pizza franchisee Jonathan Sharp of Abilene, Texas, said last summer.
Most of us get by on a patchwork of public and private services, with overlapping responsibilities: the fire department (paid for with tax revenues, usually) will put out the fire, while most homeowners have insurance to pay for the damages.
The aforementioned Journal article specifically cited the struggles of Forrest Yeager, a 91-year old World War II veteran who, thanks to short-term CD rates paying less than 1% interest, has been forced to dig deeper into his principal in order to get by on a monthly basis.
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One hope is that ringfencing will stop the subsidy that investment banks get by piggybacking on retail banks' state-underwritten balance-sheets.
The retired policemen who make up the small firms of freelancers get called on by big companies like Kroll only for jobs that are not worth sending out a full-time employee on.
The site (which you can get to by clicking on the above link) is pretty cool.
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Once deemed Google-worthy, new hires get bid on by managers across the company.
But we only get there by, on some level, writing our own code.
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Because once you get leaned on by a dog who loves you, you just can't help but lean right back.
It is possible to get burned by counting on the sanctity of a contract, even when its terms seem crystal clear.
Then comes the work of screening scads of receptors against compounds to see which ones bind together--and what pattern of receptors get turned on by gardenias.
In both sports and business, people only get stronger by taking on tougher challenges, not by taking the easy route to make each other feel good along the way.
Nobody likes to get raged on by an angry mob, but what other tools does that angry mob have at their disposal to lament the death of a beloved franchise?
The 200 inspectors on hand used to follow up on the 25, 000 illegal-conversion complaints they get each year by focusing on the ones they deemed most important.
It's time to move on and let the people who know how to play by the rules get on with this process.
These are not simply the product of an exciting brainstorming session followed by a few caffeine and adrenaline fueled all-night sessions in order to get the tapes on air by deadline.
He figures the best way to get noticed is by working on a start-up.
They get by running a stall on the street that runs along the south side of their ramshackle neighbourhood.
And nurses would get broader experience by working on wards where both men and women were being cared for.
Apartments for 2, 600 athletes and coaches were in various stages of construction, as workers raced to get roofs on them by winter.
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