Women are much more likely than men to use their earnings for the good of the family, rather than spending it on alcohol or other things for themselves.

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Some 52% of the poorest children agreed that not having enough money made their parents unhappy or stressed and 43% 'strongly agreed' that their parents were cutting back on things for themselves such as clothes or food.

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Perhaps the biggest threat to the test is that no one uses fountain pens any more, and so inkblots themselves have more or less become things of the past.

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Thousands of IT types dub themselves things like (chief) scrum master, guru, evangelist or, a particular favourite at the moment, ninja.

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Viewers shouldn't have to concern themselves with things like which room they are in when trying to schedule recordings or watch their favorite shows.

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There is a very strong ... separation between their natural power that they believe themselves to have, whether it's navigating the markets or convincing clients to do things, or whatever it might be.

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Others, disillusioned by how things have turned out, distanced themselves from the project, moving to the relative safety of Kabul or elsewhere.

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Rather, they will be people who have continued to stretch themselves, even when things are going smoothly, and who have been willing to risk failure or looking foolish, knowing that the biggest risk they take is not taking any risks at all.

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Among the discarded things lived a community of discarded people people who had been marginalized, or who had willingly discarded themselves, people who had tired of racing all over the city to sell and buy new things that were destined to go instantly out of date, people who had decided that the things that had been thrown away were the only real riches of the world.

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