The restaurant overlooks a meagre strip of beach, which is a good deal less meagre in several Katz paintings.
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They are set to end the month with meagre gains.
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A Swedish version of Sputnik folded because of meagre interest.
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Earnings were just $4bn, a meagre 1.2% return on equity.
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Rather, it is a way to boost their meagre incomes.
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Poor public services, partly due to meagre funding, amplify resentment.
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A few have also sought to augment their meagre salaries unwisely.
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The actual figure for total worldwide revenue was a meagre $1.8bn.
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For Gabriel it is the meagre subsistence that his salary affords.
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Police hauled in a meagre 4kg in both 2013 and 2014.
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Ferrari, their closest rivals, have a comparatively meagre tally of 121.
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Oddly, Trinity Lutheran gives the lower courts meagre guidance on the question.
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In return for these meagre comforts, Hamas agreed to limit the protests.
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Some have alleged their own officers are skimming from already-meagre supplies.
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The results of this two-tier system have been meagre so far.
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A package of meagre reforms, announced on October 21st, satisfied no one.
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Indexes in China posted meagre gains and Australia, Indonesia and Thailand advanced.
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At the time of writing, gold is a comparatively meagre $42.18 per gram.
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The mining index saw meagre gains, mostly contributed by lithium and nickel miners.
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By around 2016 investors were losing patience with meagre profits and mountainous debt.
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But Mr Obama's opening to Cuba has so far yielded meagre political benefits.
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This translates into not only meagre electoral turnouts but lower party membership rates.
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Their pay was meagre and they were at the mercy of their bosses.
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Don't citizens have the choice about whether they want meagre or extravagant weddings?
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Making matters worse, the company's operation for monitoring content in Burmese was meagre.
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Certainly in terms of vote-harvesting, the opportunity for Mr Trump looks meagre.
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Volumes were meagre with less than 1,000 lots of turnover of the benchmark contract.
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It might be the drawn-out misery of a meagre income in retirement, say.
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Its meagre arsenal is not a serious threat to the Middle East's strongest army.
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Yet the numbers on the streets that day—some 32,000 in Paris—were meagre.
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But he underestimated swelling discontent over meagre public support for the growing middle class.
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The headwinds from abroad mean the economy is likely post meagre growth this year.
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Bank of Tianjin said mom and pop investors subscribed to a meagre 0.6 percent.
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At 0720 GMT, the pan-European STOXX 600 was down a meagre 0.02 percent.
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Twitter and Yahoo had to make do with a meagre 22014% and 2600%, respectively.
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During a recent visit the fare was more meagre and the place mostly empty.
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Then respect was a fraction of meagre For those eaters who'd not eaten Uighur.
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The group reinvested their meagre profits and the initial government grant in equipment and seeds.
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The federal government has already struggled to spend all of its existing meagre infrastructure budget.
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Bad teaching, a lack of accountability and a meagre budget have led to awful schools.
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Provisions for the poorest look meagre compared with social-housing programmes in America or Britain.
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Mr Nazarbayev's support in elections varied wildly, from a meagre 81% to a respectable 98%.
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Filipinos would be running the risk of a constitutional coup for meagre and uncertain benefits.
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The meagre justification was "particularly egregious", he wrote, "in light of the reliance interests involved".
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The project annoys politicians in Mogadishu, who fear losing more of their already meagre authority.
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But the meagre move masked volatility in individual stocks in response to companies reporting results.
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For years under Mr Denton's stewardship, such meagre conditions were sufficient for a Gawker post.
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Thyssenkrupp's payout has been a meagre 15 cents per share for the past three years.
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Turnout was a meagre 45%, down by 18 percentage points from the last presidential election.
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Residents of Togo interviewed for the survey reported meagre levels of freedom to make choices.
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A rather meagre filet of sole was larded with butter, grapes, and crispy-edged chanterelles.
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Still, the wage growth of 3.1 percent remained meagre by historical standards when adjusted for inflation.
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As the legend goes, CSKA "paid" a few meagre footballs in exchange for the striker's services.
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To make matters worse, the expensive health insurance offered to teachers eats into already meagre pay.
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Kiranas are relatively protected, thanks to meagre tax bills and limited carrying costs (they store little).
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He spent the week before the new job started unpacking his meagre belongings and chopping wood.
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That left the index at 97.4, a meagre 0.2 percent higher than in January last year.
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It is the most meagre expansion for a decade and follows a disappointing first quarter, too.
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Yet, he only managed to earn a meagre amount of Rs 500 everyday with a rented vehicle.
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The Japanese were able to pick through Western debris for acquisitions to supplement meagre returns at home.
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Gillard said foreign aid was also meagre, with only three percent of overseas assistance going towards education.
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North Koreans are compelled to spend six days a week working for the state for meagre wages.
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After the meagre first quarter, HSBC shares are trading at a healthy 1.3 times tangible book value.
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The won's 12.8 percent rise against the dollar wiped out a substantial chunk of those meagre profits.
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Frustrated by his meagre earnings in the cocoa fields, he left in 2003 to become a miner.
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A month after he arrived, Diaz said, Batres refused to keep paying for even that meagre accommodation.
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The tight quarters and meagre rations would help set the mood, the organizer, Curt Hondrich, told us.
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Even when those who survived the accusations levelled against them were later exonerated, only meagre reparations were made.
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The first is whether he is truly gaining support: two polls are a meagre basis for firm conclusions.
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Around A$130 billion has been funnelled towards aboriginals since the targets were launched, but with meagre results.
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That's meagre even if output nearly doubles, as forecast by Wood Mackenzie analysts, to 17 bcm by 2020.
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Many thousands in the state are making do with only the most meagre food supplies and dirty water.
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Polk County went strongly for Trump, where he attracted 51.1% of the votes compared to Clinton's meagre 41.7%.
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"I never thought we would escape Daesh," said Ahmed, holding a worn plastic bag with his meagre belongings.
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Gref said meagre profits for banks so far this year reflected "a very serious situation in the sector".
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Why was the Trump Organization's domain, set up to send mass-marketing e-mails, conducting such meagre activity?
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The wall could disrupt the flow of what meagre water there is, upon which an ecosystem precariously depends.
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But Mujabir, 55, has bigger worries than pollution, which he says might even help fertilize his meagre crops.
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LME copper stocks, excluding metal awaiting load-out, currently total a meagre 21,600 tonnes, the lowest since 2005.
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Overall tourist numbers are slightly higher so far this year than last, but the growth is unusually meagre.
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Now living in poverty in Spain, he supplements his meagre income with prize money from municipal literary competitions.
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In the previous decade, the U.S. result fell by a meagre 4%, well below the Europeans' 20% decline.
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Although he achieved only meagre success on the battlefield, his Arab-nationalist rhetoric made him a populist icon.
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The overall amount of aid Hungary gives to persecuted Christians is "meagre", says Balazs Szent-Ivanyi ofAston University.
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A risk-on undertone meant meagre gains for gold, with the precious metal changing hands at $1,2015 per ounce.
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But they generate a meagre 7.7% of output because of intermittency, compared with 75% for coal (see chart 3).
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Salaries deposited in dollars cannot be withdrawn in that currency; people queue for meagre rations of "bond notes" instead.
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To turn its meagre showing into a governing majority, Palang Pracharat has assembled an unwieldy coalition of 19 parties.
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The audience sees Gregory Solomon, a Russian-Jewish émigré, blessing his meagre lunch—a hard-boiled egg—in Hebrew.
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This ossification may be starting in India, where loans to industry are growing by a meagre 2% a year.
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Clutching plastic bags with their meagre belongings, families wait to be interviewed by officials and ponder their next move.
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Some fishermen supplement their meagre income with rice farming, but Mr Chang Naa and his family own no land.
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An arrangement of two forks resting on a dish of three herring, from 1916, evokes a meagre shared meal.
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For German exports we are lowering our forecast for this year to a meagre figure of just 1 percent.
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Falling incomes would reduce the community's ability to save, squeezing it until it matched the nation's meagre willingness to invest.
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Excluding four firms that have lucrative state-mandated monopolies, their return on capital employed is a meagre 22016% and falling.
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The problem is that these gifts to Japanese industry have generated disappointingly meagre increases in domestic investment, wages and consumption.
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Ten-year JGB futures rose 0.02 point to 150.79, with trading volume at a meagre 11,892 lots by early afternoon.
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The service was excellent, and certainly far beyond what one might reasonably expect for the meagre cost of staying there.
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Meanwhile youth political participation has been meagre for decades, shaken only in the face of major crises, such as Brexit.
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Still, the IPO was also supposed to open Saudi capital markets, revive meagre foreign direct investment and help power diversification.
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Sterling was down 0.2 percent against the dollar on Tuesday, trading at $1.3150, offsetting meagre gains eked out on Monday.
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A risk-on undertone meant gold posted only meagre gains with the precious metal changing hands at $1,74 per ounce.
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For those of us with meagre means, our only way of getting involved might be through an investment of time.
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Her income is meagre—$770 a month in disability benefit, $129 for each of her two children in child support.
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In many places the budget for preserving the past is meagre to begin with, and cut ferociously when times are hard.
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Just look at Britain's big supermarkets, which have been fighting a decade-long price war and eking out only meagre profits.
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Such meagre funding for fresh tarmac would be less worrying if Italy's thoroughfares were in as good condition as, say, Germany's.
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Global output is now expected to rise by a meagre 0.5% this year, compared with a previous projection of 2.8% growth.
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Even meagre gains are proving hard to sustain: after outperforming in the second quarter, the economy slowed again in the third.
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Even after the latest cut, banks must park 15.5% of their assets at the central bank as reserves, earning meagre interest.
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So American private-sector investment hovers at a meagre $100bn or so a year, around four-fifths of it in energy.
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There has been a meagre A$3.5 billion worth of debt, nearly all green bonds, sold so far in the country.
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"Among such twelve minerals identified as strategic minerals, which have meagre resource base, lithium and cobalt are significant," the statement said.
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Iron ore is up 225%, while copper is up by just 210% and working hard to retain even those meagre gains.
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Klotz's defense was patchy, tenuous, and rooted largely in speculation, but it could be enough to withstand the government's meagre evidence.
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The British magazine The Lady asserted in 1896 that any hostess whose decorations were "meagre" was a disgrace to her family.
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The German government expects the economy to grow by a meagre 0.5% this year and rebound with a 1.5% expansion in 2020.
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A surprise was the meagre loss of 2.71 billion rupees for the Jio business where analysts were expecting a much bigger loss.
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IT MAY seem like professional suicide to leave a radio show that pulls in 22013m listeners for one with a meagre 22.1,22010.
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Last month it said it would cut its final dividend by almost three-quarters and post a meagre annual profit for 2018.
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Why even bother attaching conditions to pipeline approvals if the Board can only follow up in a meagre half of reported cases?
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The 10-year JGB futures gained 4.30 point to 150.89, clocking a meagre 11,673 lots in trading volume, the lowest since Christmas.
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Lindblad said a larger than expected budget surplus last year could force the Debt Office to further cut already meagre borrowing plans.
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Overall, MSCI's benchmark emerging stocks index gained a meagre 80.2043 percent and was set to end the week down over 80.2033 percent.
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Draghi would not be drawn on that issue and said euro zone's banks' meagre profits were mainly the results of high costs.
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Their poor season has left them fifth in the Premier League although the club's financial might dwarfs the meagre resources of Midtjylland.
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Japan's Nikkei closed down 0.2 percent on Friday, erasing most of this year's meagre gains and ending 2016 up only 0.4 percent.
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The estate is called Lickleyhead Castle, and it's available to rent on Airbnb from a meagre £600 ($802) a night — total bargain.
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Rival Kimberly-Clark this week announced large staff cuts and predicted meagre sales growth in 2018 due to the tough market conditions.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - For years, Mostafa Mahmoud struggled to pay for his expensive drug addiction, spending much of his meagre income on hashish.
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The stock market is volatile, returns on bank deposits are meagre and foreign exchange controls largely prevent households from buying foreign assets.
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For having denied me anesthesia during the operation, for having added to my suffering, my father made a meagre gesture of repentance.
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The Australian dollar took a brief knock after jobs data proved unexpectedly soft in March, with employment rising by a meagre 4,900.
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If the central bank makes a meagre adjustment in the exchange rate, economists say, downward pressure will continue to mount on the pound.
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America's flexible labour market makes it easy for migrants to find entry-level jobs, and its meagre welfare state means they have to.
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All told, it does not seem pessimistic to expect quarterly GDP growth of a meagre 0.1-0.2% in the second quarter of 2018.
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And "Christmas with The Joker" from Batman: The Animated Series inspires a festive set featuring a Holiday Joker and his meagre Christmas tree.
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A meagre pick up in prices toward the end of last year seems to have stalled, in part due to the stronger crown.
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WHAT meagre challenges Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has faced in office have come not from the opposition but from his own side.
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That means buying 10-year U.S. Treasuries yielding 3.0 percent with currency hedging leaves Japanese investors with a meagre return of 0.4 percent.
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In 2018, its organic revenue growth amounted to a meagre 0.8%, excluding the underperformance of a U.S. business that it sold in January.
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Even without the drag of state ownership, other South American airlines have recently either lost money or made only meagre profits (see chart).
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Performance for the fund has since produced mostly losses or meagre returns, according to the document and other performance information seen by Reuters.
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Alexander Krueger from Bankhaus Lampe said that he expected more meagre growth rates in the coming quarters as the trade outlook remained clouded.
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After 22 rides (when a scooter is written off), the company has generated $230 of profit, at a relatively meagre 280% profit margin.
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The dollar comprises 62 percent of the global currency reserves, whereas the euro is in second place with a meagre 85033 percent. 3.
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The economy depends almost entirely on gold (managed by a Canadian firm), coal (managed by an Australian one) and meagre subsidies from Moscow.
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Distribution channels were meagre; there were not enough bookstores in the United States, and publishers relied on book clubs to sell the product.
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The comments flagging a cautious approach to stimulus come a day after economic data showed fixed asset investment posting meagre growth in November.
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On the flip side, if resources are scarce, the animal will devote these meagre resources to sustaining itself, rather than trying to produce offspring.
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The strength in commodity prices helped the Australian dollar easily weather unexpectedly soft jobs data, with employment rising by a meagre 4,900 in March.
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The leftists captured 70% of the 165 seats allocated on a first-past-the-post (FPTP) basis, compared with a meagre 14% for Congress.
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Civil servants no longer hope to get their salaries on time, and in some places their already meagre pay has been slashed by half.
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Delighted investors and disgruntled money managers speak of "the Vanguard effect", the pressure that the giant's meagre fees put on others to cut costs.
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But even this meagre hope was dashed by Saudi Arabia's insistence Iran join any deal, something the newly sanctions-free Islamic republic wouldn't countenance.
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In prose that is ornate and spare by turns, Hagy explores the meagre possibilities of individual redemption in a society traumatized by unspeakable violence.
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But Alstom's meagre 2% share price rise on Wednesday suggests shareholders have little faith that Poupart-Lafarge will be successful a second time around.
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Keen to make more than their meagre salaries (they were all earning less than $200 per month), they spent their breaks dreaming up business ideas.
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Indeed, they can encourage people who would otherwise move to stay put, because meagre fixed incomes go further in places where living costs have tumbled.
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When unemployment hit its post-crisis high of 8.5% in 2011, employers knew that they could get away with offering meagre or no pay rises.
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Yet Myanmar has the lowest tax take in South-East Asia and one of the lowest in the world, at a meagre 213% of GDP.
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Adjusted loans to euro area residents excluding governments rose a meagre 21 percent in the last month of 20.8864, the slowest pace in three months.
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The military contractors tasked with running housing have been slow to build new residences and the military has provided meagre funding for upkeep and renovation.
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Its average over the pilot was 0.84 rides per bike per day—and the US average for dockless companies was a meagre 0.3 last year.
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Grain imports will put pressure on the country's meagre dollar reserves, which have seen the country grapple with shortages of fuel, medicines, bread and electricity.
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As a teenager, I would pore over catalogues and fashion magazines, dreaming of the day my shopping budget would exceed my meagre pocket money allowance.
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The euro zone's third-largest economy contracted in the final quarter of 2019, and the government expects GDP to grow a meagre 0.6% this year.
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The boardwalk at Gavin's Point, where the orphaned scout had made a meagre living selling saltwater taffy and guessing weights, had reached its economic nadir.
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The report notes signs of a weakening social fabric and worsening security situation, for which the U.S. ranks a meagre 56th out of 140 economies studied.
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But the strategy concedes there is little incentive to invest in the sport in Russia given meagre revenues from ticket sales, television broadcasting rights and merchandise.
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Latin America's labour markets are characterised by high job turnover, low pay and meagre investment in skills both by firms and workers, according to the IDB.
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They expect similar meagre gains for the rest of the year, a forecast that runs counter to the Trump administration's expectations for strong growth above 3%.
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With corporate output prices growing a meagre 0.8% yoy, this represents a severe margin squeeze which we believe is often a good leading indicator for recession.
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These amounts are, sadly, often better than the meagre or nonexistent unemployment supports currently in place, but it's not an income if it doesn't cover rent.
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Next, itinerant thrill-seeker: the relatively meagre proceeds from equipment sales allowed him to continue to pursue an intrepid life of risky recreation in the outdoors.
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" Everything Suzanne does or has, however meagre, transfixes Evie: "There was a rack of clothes hanging and more spilling out of a garbage bag—torn denim.
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Although annual charitable giving is growing fast in China—up by about two-thirds since 2011—it still looks meagre when compared with donations in other countries.
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Most of those who fled now eke out a meagre existence in the world's largest and most densely populated refugee camp, Kutupalong, near Cox's Bazar (see map).
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Partially due to the drought, as well as a sharp downturn in the construction and commodities sectors, Namibia's economy expanded by a meagre 0.2 percent in 2016.
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But markets can probably rest easy for now; finance minister Olaf Scholz has hinted at a meagre 217 billion euro package to be deployed during a crisis.
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So far, the new offering has not attracted many bidders, most probably because they are loth to fork over a big part of their already meagre profits.
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A decade on it has a meagre 2500 wholesale stores in India, generating just 22015% of its $22016bn in global revenues and a small loss to boot.
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It is clearly a priority for Mr Kim, who seems to be devoting even more of North Korea's relatively meagre resources to it than his father did.
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The mice remained on their meagre commons for three days before being returned to standard rodent chow for ten days and then put through the cycle again.
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The 10-year JGB futures rose 0.53 point to 150.86, with a meagre trading volume of 14,747 lots, one of the lowest levels so far this year.
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Whereas those who consider their decisions are more selfish, resulting in a meagre group pot, reinforcing an idea that it doesn't pay to rely on the group.
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Trust us when we that we do love you and your happiness, especially the money—as meagre as it may be—that it takes to accomplish that.
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"There's very meagre appetite for a new BTP Italia at the moment, I would not expect any offer over the next few weeks," one of the sources said.
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An Icelandic Mr Messi would have only increased the country's meagre quarter-final hopes, which had already been been reduced by a tough group, from 4% to 12%.
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At a time when private trading was still illegal she began supplementing her family's meagre income by selling cheap goods from a stand in front of her home.
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He spent his meagre income from scrap metal on a cache of huge guns and a giant gasoline tank, for fighting or fleeing when the authorities showed up.
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Instead, gelding-dopers tinker with another source of testosterone, the adrenal glands—their weapons of choice being drugs that enhance the effect of this more meagre testosterone supply.
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In 29, Tata Steel UK had a meagre 30% market share in its own home base, and 70% of its customers already relied on foreign, mostly continental, imports.
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His only comfort is in the sublime—caves of ice, bleak skies, dreary glaciers—which shows him how meagre man's gifts are in the face of immeasurable nature.
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Add to that the sheer financial stakes involved in managing a Premier League side these days, and it's little wonder that managers have such a meagre shelf life.
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Meagre gains eked out through a volatile year were reversed at its end, on fears of slowing global growth and all-out trade war between America and China.
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On that basis, even the most aggressive 75% expense target would imply a meagre $812 million of cuts over the period, or 3.5% of last year's cost base.
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It is a far cry from the meagre and stodgy offerings at the kiosks and shops of Nogoon Nuur, a ger district less than seven kilometres to the north.
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While fans are still likely to turn up in large numbers for Milan's bigger fixtures, the paucity of season ticket holders could see low-profile matches attract meagre crowds.
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Scrooge's journey with the Ghost of Christmas Present reaches a grim climax with the appearance of a pair of starving children, "meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish", named Ignorance and Want.
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The 40-something Tahir, who earns a meagre living as a labourer, says the hope of a better future for his children gives him the strength to carry on.
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But the industry is also rife with disappointments: endless toil that produces meagre returns; and dreams of reinventing the world that turn into just another tough and insecure job.
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The former go into the game with an atrocious five points from their first 11 games, while the latter aren't much better off with a meagre total of 10.
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The family was promised a new plot of land in town, but, once the bulldozers had cleared away the rubble, they were given only meagre compensation, paid in rubles.
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He said the BOJ will look into why inflation, which stood at a meagre 0.7 percent in May, remains stubbornly low when it reviews its quarterly projections next month.
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Their salaries are often meagre, with a typical US content moderator receiving $28,800 per year – that&aposs tens of thousands of times smaller than Zuckerberg&aposs own annual income.
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Those banks are now free to provide shareholders with a bonanza of increased dividend payouts and share buy-backs, after years of complaints from investors about the industry's meagre returns.
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On the other hand, the market is relying on a relatively mild winter to eke out the meagre inventories, so any period of prolonged cold could send prices sharply higher.
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South Africa boasts a big domestic market to drive the industry with annual per capita income of $6,800 compared to Ethiopia's meagre $550, according to World Bank data for 2014.
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When the jobs on offer are poor, that cushion, though meagre, can be enough to draw people out of the labour force into indolence—particularly if families offer extra help.
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For his regime to endure, he needs enough wealth to buy conventional weapons and pacify the urban middle class, which in recent years has begun to enjoy some meagre luxuries.
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A series of weak economic data from France, Germany and the euro zone as a whole painted a meagre growth outlook, lending support to doves among the European Central Bank.
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Meagre rises, in turn, lead some to conclude that there are simply not many breakthroughs left to be uncovered, of the sort that lifted living standards during the Industrial Revolution.
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Their income from performing in bars and at local concerts is meagre; Irene Baeni, the group's third and only female member, also sews and sells clothes to make ends meet.
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"I can almost leave it at that (assessment)," without elaborating on whether that meant it would be close to the meagre 279 million euro net profit it reported for 2016.
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In 1.093, at the height of the global financial crisis, tens of millions of migrants simply went back to rural areas, tilling fields or scrabbling for meagre pay in villages.
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Compared with Carroll's two masterpieces, his long epic poem about the hunting of the Snark, and his massive "Sylvie and Bruno" and "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded," it's a meagre harvest.
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Local people, who should be looking forward to the harvest in late March, are instead awaiting its failure and wondering how to make do with meagre supplies of food aid.
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Megadeals drove global M&A volumes up 41 percent to $4.6 trillion in 2015, but European volumes were up a meagre 6 percent to $880 billion from a year earlier.
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Rooted firmly to the bottom of the table having taken a meagre 16 points from 32 games, you might think the players would be embarrassed by their showing so far.
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The grub offerings are meagre, but if you're hungry you can order the Cuvée Alex le Rouge, a heavy imperial stout brewed with vanilla, Sarawak black pepper, and Russian tea.
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But a meagre showing would still rattle Iran's leaders and embolden critics both in the country and outside who argue the Islamic Republic needs to change domestic and foreign policy.
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Inhabiting a cramped apartment below street level, with meagre resources, they rely on free Wi-Fi from surrounding businesses, and, at this moment, the hunt is on for a signal.
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The $140 million action epic has earned a meagre $22.8 million domestically after two weeks — a terrible result for a picture that was intended to usher in a new franchise.
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IN JANE AUSTEN'S novel, "Sense and Sensibility", Henry Dashwood's death plunges his wife and two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, into financial distress, because his heir grants them only a meagre allowance.
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With GPIF's deposits piling up because of its meagre returns on investment, the trust bank arm had been requesting the pension fund pay for the negative rate charge, the Nikkei said.
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The Foxes had no such distractions, and the fewest injuries of any side in the league, allowing them to build cohesion in the first team (and avoid using their meagre reserves).
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"There'll be more than one eye on what the report says about average earnings growth that's expected to grow a meagre 2111.03 percent," said National Australia Bank economist David de Garis.
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They also did so at considerable risk: had they lost, players may well have been blacklisted, and given the modest salary cap would have had meagre savings to fall back on.
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Notably, tablets — once thought to be the future for commerce because of their larger screens and portability (buy anywhere!) — took a meagre 10 percent of visits and nine percent of purchases.
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Apple's devices are coveted by millions of Indians, but its premium pricing has limited its market share to a meagre 1 percent to the gain of rivals such as China's OnePlus.
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But, surviving on meagre bowls of potatoes or barley, the participants soon fractured between those who felt that they were carrying the community and those who felt dominated as a result.
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But despite these relatively meagre returns, many of these funds hold a significant portion of riskier bonds rated Single B or lower, meaning they are still exposed to substantial credit risk.
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Keiko has yet to fully explain how Alberto Fujimori funded her BA at Boston University, which she is reported to have paid for in cash, on his relatively meagre presidential salary.
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That said, they did expect gifts as an entrance fee: a fact I was only made aware of when they put their hands out expectantly, before refusing my meagre pile of coins.
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Retail sales likely added almost A$1 billion to GDP last quarter and may have contributed 0.6 percentage points to growth compared with a meagre 0.2 percentage points in the first quarter.
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Although its return on equity is still meagre, just 20173% in the third quarter, its ratio of equity to risk-weighted assets, a key gauge of strength, is respectable enough, at 14.6%.
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But on the flip side, a sample size of just two people is fairly meagre, even if they are twins, so there were plenty of factors that could not be fully controlled.
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I saw the film in IMAX , and a week later I'm still waiting for the safe return of my optic nerves, but it was the meagre emotional charge that shocked me most.
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Despite his precocious start, he was nearly forty when it came out, with just two other films to his name—a casualty of the struggle for financing amid meagre box-office performance.
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A central bank's willingness to tighten policy despite meagre inflation is sometimes considered optimistic, as policymakers expect the economy will return to full employment and targeted inflation despite less support from policy.
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Vedanta Ltd was the top laggard in the Nifty 50 index, dropping 12.7%, while Indian Oil Corp managed to eke out meagre gains to end as the lone gainer in the index.
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A growing number involve workers reaching retirement age, who discover that—because they fall through gaps in the welfare safety-net, or because employers skimped on pension contributions—a meagre future awaits.
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The pattern is clear: a consistently sub-20 percent VIX goes hand in glove with booming stocks, while a VIX consistently above 20 percent delivers very choppy market, meagre gains or slight losses.
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Colombia did show some growth, about 12%, but remains well behind at about 1 tonne per hectare while in Central America there was a decline of around 3% to a meagre 0.6 tonnes.
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Harms also arise for females having to share already meagre sex-based resources with self-declared trans women (such as all-women shortlists for political candidacy, representation in the media and sports scholarships).
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Consumer prices rose a meagre 1 percent in the year to June while core inflation hit a record low at 1.5 percent, well below the RBA's target band of 2 to 3 percent.
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In an earnings call in which the company reported meagre iPhone growth and forecast its first revenue drop in 13 years, the Indian market stood out as a rare bright spot for Apple.
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Since Sharp, which makes display panels, is also a big supplier to Apple, the combination would have more clout in negotiations over margins—which, at barely 3%, are now meagre at Hon Hai.
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Many are unable to return home for years due to prolonged conflict or drought and languish in camps, where they depend on meagre foreign aid handouts and are often perceived as a burden.
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In equities, Denmark looked set to post the best performance in developed markets, with a gain of nearly 21 percent in its MSCI country index, while U.S. indexes may post only meagre gains.
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Even more so than Bergkamp before him, Henry struggled to adapt to Serie A. He was used sparingly by both Lippi and Ancelotti, making only 19 appearances and scoring a meagre three goals.
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Consumer prices have been flat or falling for most of the last three years, and a meagre pick up toward the end of last year has stalled, largely due to the stronger crown.
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For a team that had been regarded as essentially a Serie B outfit, struggling to fill their stadium and with a meagre two Coppa Italias to its name, the rise had been meteoric.
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According to McKinsey, a consultant, America's giants make just 5% of all domestic VC investments, whereas between them the BATs account for close to half of those in China (though Baidu's are relatively meagre).
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He also likened the company's frequent sustainability announcements and public awareness campaigns to a covert advertising program that overlooks what he calls the company's "meagre" environmental standards and failure to meet past sustainability goals.
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The road into the farmland was a county road, sparsely lined with economically mismatched houses—beat-up boxes with meagre strips of yard were situated next to charming farmhouses set back amid leafy trees.
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While each model had produced different figures, their conclusions were roughly the same: The actual number of people infected was likely tens of thousands more than the meagre testing results so far had suggested.
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The thousands of DOD nuclear weapons specialists and sub-specialists, through which DNA managed DOD's nuclear weapons capabilities worldwide During the Cold War are now gone, and their meagre replacements don't know their business.
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For a relatively meagre investment, states could buy voting machines that are not connected to a network, and therefore cannot be hacked remotely, and that spit out paper receipts, so results can be audited later.
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There's been a vague newsletter bouncing around for the last month alluding to a "special message from Professor Willow" that never arrived, and the meagre release notes accompanying the last two updates... and that's it.
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IBM has steadily been boosting the number of qubits on its quantum computers, starting with a meagre 5-qubit computer, then 16- and 20-qubit machines, and just recently showing off its 50-qubit processor.
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China's producer price index (PPI) in January rose a meagre 0.1 percent from a year earlier, a sharp slowdown from the previous month's 0.9 percent increase, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday.
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Brussels had predicted in February a meagre 0.2 percent expansion in Italy this year, but Dombrovskis said that growth could turn out to be "even slower" as global and domestic factors had dampened the outlook.
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A meagre $4.99 for the app may not seem much to the average user, but it's a heavy price to pay for having the app steal your browser history — which users will never get back.
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According to the punch stats provided by CompuBox, Ward landed 20% (15 of 226) of his punches to Brand's meagre 21% (219 of 285)—landing just one of 20 punches in the penultimate 11th round.
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"This adds to evidence ... that the euro zone economy will expand by a meagre 1% or so this year, strengthening the case for ECB action sooner rather than later," said Melanie Debono from Capital Economics.
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After all, in giving up his substantial wealth, wasn't he sacrificing more than, say, the line worker at the electric-car plant who'd signed over only a double-wide and a meagre 401(k) plan?
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China's producer price index (PPI) in January rose a meagre 1.93 percent from a year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed, a sharp slowdown from the previous month's 0.9 percent increase.
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But it is hard to imagine rational people giving up work for the meagre sums offered for disability ($1,234 per month on average), food stamps ($126 per month) and Medicaid (which cannot be cashed out).
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's 210 budget gave some meagre support on Wednesday to domestic stock and currency markets suffering from nerves over its plans to leave the European Union and the fallout for increasingly hard-pressed consumers.
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The meagre growth in the quarter was led by a 3.2 percent decline in the manufacturing sector, followed by a 2.8 percent decline in the electricity sector and a 2.1 percent contraction in trade and accommodation.
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Can Bournemouth, who showed remarkable character last season to overcome not only their meagre resources but a series of long-term injuries pull off the same trick again, having effectively swapped Matt Ritchie for Jordon Ibe?
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But with a meagre domestic audience for the PlayStation 4 — let's not even talk about the Xbox One and PC — Nintendo's next console is the biggest long-term hope for the future of traditional Japanese gaming.
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Yet in recent years its government has shied away from reforms to boost the meagre domestic savings rate or promote industry, even as a consumer credit binge and heavy infrastructure spending have crowded out private investment.
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He gets fired at from the ground, and is lauded for what he delivers, but the rewards are meagre, and his wife, Lucy (Sarah Wright), is expecting a child, so how to pump up his pay?
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German imports fell unexpectedly in November, outstripping a drop in exports and widening the trade surplus, in a further sign that Europe's largest economy is likely to post meagre growth in the fourth quarter of 2018.
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Offering meagre consolation, the Paris-based policy forum forecast growth would edge up to 21.2% in 22021, but only if a myriad of risks ranging from trade wars to an unexpectedly sharp Chinese slowdown is contained.
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Along with a handful of families whose meagre possessions were also washed away in 2002, Ramaly collected any scraps of timber and tin she could find and walked up the riverbank to find a place to rebuild.
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Music schools and military special forces were asked for advice on spotting talent and performing under pressure, and an expert in turning around flagging businesses, borrowed from a private-equity firm, helped improve British shooting's meagre performance.
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LME registered tin stocks have rebuilt from a meagre 740 tonnes in May to a current 5,990 tonnes but it took a cash premium of $295 per tonne to suck that metal into the LME warrant world.
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In other words, it sure looks like the Shadow Brokers are finally collecting the rather meagre returns on their bid to sell government-grade hacking tools to the highest bidder, or at least moving it somewhere less conspicuous.
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Research from the IMF suggests that the least costly way to deal with fiscal imbalances in Africa is to raise meagre tax-to-GDP ratios, which have crept up by just a couple of percentage points this century.
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By accidents of geography countries that border war zones, such as Lebanon, Jordan and Kenya, find themselves the involuntary hosts of millions of refugees, some languishing in camps, others scratching a meagre existence on the fringes of cities.
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"Asura", a fantasy epic based on Tibetan mythology, was yanked from cinemas by producers after it brought in a meagre 49.46 million yuan ($7.41 million) and got a lowly rating of 3.1 on local movie review site Douban.
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India's income tax revenues contracted 3.5% in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, which began in April 2019, and income from other taxes grew by a meagre 3.8%, the finance ministry told parliament on Monday.
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German exports and imports both fell more than expected in February, data showed on Monday, in the latest sign that Europe's largest economy is likely to post meagre growth in the first quarter amid increased headwinds from abroad.
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The benchmark, which posted meagre gains on Wednesday, was partially held back by a weak lead from Wall Street overnight Real estate stocks underperformed, as landlord Charter Hall Group reported a 30 percent fall in half-year net profit.
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The deal will place Apple's iPhones in Reliance and Jio retail stores in 900 cities across India, giving the company a chance to boost its meagre 3 percent market share and close the gap with market leader Samsung Electronics .
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Most excitingly, he wants to expand the debilitatingly meagre scope of the city's mayoralty, pledging to lobby for new tax-raising abilities and local health powers to rival those which Manchester will acquire, ahead of the capital, in April.
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LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Global bond investors keeping close tabs on currency markets may find the meagre interest paid on French debt more appealing than U.S. Treasuries offering nearly three times as much, research from Swiss bank UBS shows.
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Living standards, however, have fallen since May's Conservatives came to power in 2010, due to years of meagre wage growth and bouts of high inflation - including a current one caused by last year's vote to leave the European Union.
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Thanks to interludes for Elton John's and Tim Rice's songs, this meagre plot just about fills an hour and a half; but over the course of two hours it becomes clear that Simba doesn't do anything especially brave, noble or clever.
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With the global smartphone market set to stay flat or even shrink after meagre growth of one percent last year, vendors are focusing on features designed to encourage young consumers to ditch their old phones earlier than they would have previously.
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"This adds to evidence from PMI data published last week that the euro zone economy will expand by a meagre 20173% or so this year, strengthening the case for ECB action sooner rather than later," said Melanie Debono from Capital Economics.
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Instead, research from the IMF suggests that the least costly way to deal with fiscal imbalances in Africa is to raise the region's meagre tax-to-GDP ratio, which has crept up by just a couple of percentage points this century.
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Often accused of being a tad hesitant in the early rounds, Canelo was aggressive from start to finish—exemplified by the CompuBox stats which recorded 30 power shots courtesy of Alvarez in the opening frame to Smith's meagre offering of six.
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But besides from bringing an eternal light to my meagre existence, J.K. Rowling's first book-baby also brought with it a heavy dose of sass, wit, and some of the best one-liners 218 could ever have dared hope for.
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"These [police enforcement and surveillance] initiatives will only further barricade and quarantine Black communities that are already under economic pressure from government policies ushering in an unprecedented era of unaffordable housing and meagre job prospects for young people," the letter stated.
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At stake in the small Midwestern state are six electoral votes—a relatively meagre haul compared to other states thought to be in play this year and one that almost certainly means more to Mr Trump than to Mrs Clinton.
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His first novel, " Somebody in Boots " (originally titled "Native Son": his good friend Richard Wright's book of that name hadn't been written yet), sold a meagre seven hundred and sixty copies, failing to earn back its two-hundred-dollar advance.
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And fumigation, he said, is just one of the problems poppy growers like him face as they struggle to get by on meagre profits, as well as navigate the terror of living in territories disputed by different drug trafficking gangs.
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In Canada's tiny telecom market, dominated by a handful of large companies—Rogers, Bell, and Telus, as well as Videotron in Quebec—losing a broadcasting license would be disastrous, and might even further narrow Canadians' already meagre selection of cable providers.
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China has taken big strides in trying to promote the international usage of its currency since 2009 but the yuan's take up in global trade and markets remains meagre thanks to its relatively closed markets and largely policy determined exchange rate.
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It takes over four years for an insolvency process to return a meagre 26 cents on the dollar to creditors, so bankers often preferred to behave as if even the most distressed company might somehow find a way of repaying a loan.
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WEALE'S U-TURN Stock markets have recovered well from the shock of Britain's vote last month to leave the European Union, largely on the presumption that central banks would wade in with more stimulus to offset any blow to still meagre global growth.
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Its two highest ranked cities continued their tussle for regional dominance with Hong Kong managing to sneak ahead of Singapore to capture third place – however, this by a margin of only a meagre two points on a scale that runs to 1,000.
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Frustration over few signs of tangible progress in the U.S.-China trade talks and a modest recovery in sterling amid lawmakers' legally-binding moves to prevent a no-deal Brexit have left the main index with meagre gains so far this month.
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LONDON/NEW DELHI, May 3 (Reuters) - Mahindra & Mahindra has stopped selling its electric car in the United Kingdom due to meagre sales and is winding up operations there, according to a document seen by Reuters, in a setback for the Indian automaker's global ambitions.
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A Reuters journalist at the scene said a digger moved in to clear a small part of the camp, a tentacular sprawl of tents, mattresses, blankets and the meagre belongings of migrants who come in large part from war-torn countries such as Afghanistan.
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The French firm's 43.4% ownership of Nissan, which in turn owns a meagre 15% non-voting stake in Renault (as well as 34% of Mitsubishi), rankles among the top brass in Japan, not least because Nissan makes more cars and fatter profits than Renault.
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Image: GizmodoOutside of the entertainment apps, Roku doesn't quite offer the same breadth of choice as the other platforms we've discussed above—the selection of games is pretty meagre, for example—but there are some nice surprises to be found, like the Firefox browser.
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While yields of onshore Chinese government debt are higher than what is available in the developed bond markets of the West and on most Asian markets, meagre foreign investor participation has reflected concerns over protracted yuan weakness and difficulty repatriating funds across the border.
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OTHER METALS: LME aluminium closed 1.7 percent down at $13,936 a tonne, zinc ended down 1 percent at $2,593, nickel fell 3.3 percent to $10,850, tin finished 1.3 percent lower at $18,925 and lead eeked out a meagre gain of 0.1 percent to $1,984.
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There are things we can predict in the short term with relative certainty–manned missions to Mars and a cure for certain cancers spring to mind–but once we get to even a meagre fifty years in the future, things get very woolly indeed.
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Sales of clothing grew 2.5 percent in May from a year earlier, down from the 5.9 percent annual rise in April, and sales of food and beverages rose a meagre 0.1 percent in May on-year, down from the 1.3 percent increase in April.
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Despite extensive foreign operations, the annual inflation-adjusted growth rate of revenue per share since 2000 for all the constituents of the U.S. S&P 500 stock-market index has been a meagre 1.1 percent, just over half the rate at which real GDP grew.
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Ian Tonks of the University of Bath reckons that, with low equity returns in recent years (and, with the current market turmoil, no sign of that improving soon), people retiring today will have more meagre pensions than those who hung up their boots at the turn of the millennium.
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" This makes for a romantic ending to his chapter, but by the time the novel turns to his daughter, Abena, James has become an old man, barely subsisting on a meagre plot of land where, "season after season, the earth spit up rotted plants or sometimes nothing at all.
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And of having felt like a small event for so long—having felt like an artichoke, scraped away at with the front teeth, one scale at a time, worked down to the meaty heart, but with the ultimate disappointment of meagre flesh— of being thus, I bet I will live again.
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The squad finished the season bottom of the table on a meagre 25 points, with big-name signings like Shaun Wright-Phillips, Esteban Granero and Christopher Samba looking either disinterested or inadequate, while an insubordinate supporting cast headed by Jose Bosingwa seemed to drag down the dressing room and undermine morale.
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FRANKFURT, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Five large banks in the euro zone face a cap on how much they can pay in dividends, bonuses and coupons next year because they hold too little capital, the European Central Bank said on Thursday, warning that meagre profits and unpaid loans are weighing on the sector.
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"Payrolls tonight are expected (to) reveal still robust levels of payrolls growth (190K) but there'll be more than one eye on what the report says about average earnings growth that's expected to grow a meagre 0.1%," David de Garis, a director and senior economist at National Australia Bank, wrote in a morning note.
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The data for international matches are too meagre to tell us how good Iceland's opportunities have been, and therefore how sustainable their success might be—though they created a surplus of 2.7 shots per game in their World Cup qualifying campaign, suggesting that their recent triumphs have been more like Atlético's than Leicester's.
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The SBV has forced sector-wide restructuring and buy-outs, shrinking 15 banks into seven and setting up an asset management firm on a meagre budget that helped trim bad debt from 17.2 percent of credit in September 2012 to 2.7 percent last month, although many NPLs have yet to be fully settled.
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As part of our meagre rations, each of us received a quarter of a small oval loaf of rye bread; I would keep cutting thin slices off my portion "just to even it out a little," I'd say, and so it never lasted the three and a half days it was supposed to.
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Then there are the 2,200,000 buys Canelo helped put together in his 2013 fight against Mayweather and the 300,000 buys, which are meagre by his standards, garnered against little-known British light-middleweight Liam Smith—and that's not mentioning the fact that fight took place at the AT&T Stadium in front of over 51,000 people.
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Even with a frugal diet and dirt-cheap accommodation, a single Japanese retiree with minimal savings has living costs more than 25 per cent higher than the meagre basic state pension of Y20603,000 ($6,900) a year, according to a study on the economics of elderly crime by Michael Newman of Tokyo-based research house Custom Products Research.
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In particular, they criticised the meagre 2 per cent boost to earnings per share next year — even with some very aggressive assumptions on cost-cutting — and the projection it will take seven years to overcome the hit to tangible book value, which is much longer than the three to five years that is normal for bank acquisitions, according to M&A bankers.
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Beyond the lost jobs, and nights out that'll never be, it's the story of a city turning against youth culture, in a country which already sees the young as a bunch of debt-saddled walking erections, moronic chip-eaters happy to spend a life in malnourished rented bedsits, eeking out meagre livings, seemingly happy to go to bed the second the sun sets because there's nothing to do.
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Formerly led by Nigel Farage, UKIP has been a disruptive presence in British politics over the past decade, its influence outstripping its meagre parliamentary presence (the party currently has no seats in the House of Commons, and just three in the House of Lords.) Questions remain whether the party still has a reason to exist following the vote to leave the EU. UKIP has been through five changes of leadership since 2016, and with Bolton facing an investigation by the national executive it could soon be due for another.
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