After the pay channels started encrypting their signals, his business had withered, and he was forced to take a part-time job at a company that uplinked cable programming to different satellites across the country.

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While more companies are allowing employees to work when and where they want to, they increasingly are limiting people's ability to take a leave or work part-time, the Families and Work Institute found in its 2012 National Study of Employers.

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Furthermore, 3.3 million women were forced to take part-time employment for economic reasons, a particular hardship for mothers.

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He added the college did not take into account projected earnings from students who aim to have a part-time job during their studies.

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So one of the most fearsome fast bowlers of all time is due to take part in a 55-over Birmingham League Division Three contest.

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Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), told the BBC that this kind of campaigning was part of a transition period - which Facebook users may take some time to get used to.

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As part of the expanded partnership, customers can take advantage of a special, limited-time promotion.

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These players have been spending a lot of time in South Korea recently to take part in the in the invitation-only World E-Sports Games league.

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By contrast, the young parents, living on only one income, or if the wife has a part-time job, one-and-a-half incomes, of which the take-home portion, after deductions for tax and pension contributions, are economizing, avoiding major purchases, trying to save a little while making ends meet.

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