In other words, I doubt the poor farmer or school teacher received any of it.

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"Evita, " which opens Christmas Day, is a screen opera about the life of Eva Peron, the daughter of a poor farmer who rose to power as the first lady of Argentina's President Juan Peron in the 1940s.

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One of the reasons that the Reynolds women were so attracted to vanilla is that a single producing vanilla vine can support an entire Haitian family financially for a year, much as a cow might help a poor farmer subsist.

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Psilakis cites studies showing that the people of Crete have the lowest death rate from heart disease and cancer in the world, and he credits the lifestyle and traditional diet that of the poor Cretan farmer.

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That poor Third World farmer out in the boonies gets more value from a weekly text telling him local sorghum prices than we do from gigabytes of web surfing.

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As Dr Farmer argues, improving the health of the poor is not just a medical challenge, but a question of human rights.

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Far from the farmer bearing the heartache of a colt dying in his arms or poor weather wiping out a crop, he has somehow managed to transfer the risk to you.

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One farmer in Upper Teesdale said he feared he could lose his entire flock of sheep as poor weather conditions continue to hit the region.

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The fact, for example, that some 70 percent of all farmers in the world are poor, working small holdings (a few acres per farm) additionally invites consideration of all those farmer dwellings.

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