But they will change little for ordinary folk, who will continue to scrabble for what they can get, with both sides invariably ending up worse off.

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The Cuban authorities accused them of deliberately setting up a scene in which hungry, desperate Cuban children would have to scrabble in the gutters, and attacks on Spain followed on Cuban television.

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She wakes up each morning at around 4:30 or 5, plays several rounds of online Scrabble on her iPad (against the computer) and drinks two cups of coffee.

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