An hour later the receiver is replaced - how on earth could I survive without that wonderful modern invention - the telephone!
Partly, it began as an experiment after my first year of university: Could I survive without news reports, without the media, even as a member of the media, by getting my breaking news (the important stuff) via my network.
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But when I looked at my budget, I realized I could survive on half of what was being offered so I turned down the private loans that came with the highest interest rates.
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But at least tomorrow morning when I get up, I'll know I did survive it.
"I knew the business would take off if I could survive long enough, " she says.
"If the world ends, I can survive and hunt my own food and live in the wilderness, " he says.
We're not getting enough help to live decently, that's why I'm doing this - so my family and I can survive.
Our conversations usually revolve around his marketing efforts, since I worry that in this economy, he might not survive and I am already such a big fan.
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That said, Gary Megson is a good friend of mine so I'd like to see Bolton survive, and I'm quite friendly with a few of the Reading players, and I also like Fulham...
My recollection is that I managed to survive the Four Questions, perhaps even garnering modest applause.
As a young person, I find Calum Steen's remarks fairly offensive (though I'll survive).
The U.S. economy and stock markets, I think, could survive a repeal of the Bush tax cuts, much as you and I can muddle through the day with a bad head cold.
The Social Security benefits I received enabled me to survive and eventually overcome the extreme adversity I had to face in the years to come, as I grew from boyhood into adulthood.
"I walk every day, I can't survive without walking, " he adds.
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"Many thanks to everyone, especially my God who let me go free, my family, my children, who with their help, I was able to survive this test, " Mrs Maldonado said.
Without such a federation, can the single currency survive, I asked Helmut Schlesinger, another influential central banker who has seen the odd financial crisis at close quarters and was president of the Bundesbank when sterling was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992.
If you raise my property taxes, I don't know how I'm going to survive.
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In past writings, I mentioned how Chavismo will survive without Chavez and showed how this will most likely happen in Venezuela.
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Of course, if GM doesn't survive, "I'm not sure what they're really winning, " he adds.
With hindsight now I should not have stressed my heart - I would need its strength to survive the journey.
If the Democrats do show up to vote and several Republicans end up defecting and voting against the bill in its current form, I doubt Governor Scott Walker could survive the fallout.
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The US Treasury says that the economy can survive all of the assaults I worry about.
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To be honest, I didn't think he would survive, his lips were blue.
Larger markets, like the one I live in now, would likely survive.
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