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He arrived in Colombia three months ago and has scratched a living selling water on the street and picking through trash for recyclables.
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Some of the most dramatic forest growth in Europe has been in high, dry places where farmers once scratched a living from goats, sheep or olives.
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Azeem was born on 1 March 1990 in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab. She hailed from Shah Sadar Din. She came from an underprivileged family, the daughter of Anwar Bibi and Muhammad Azeem who scratched a living from local farming. She had 6 brothers and 2 sisters.
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This company practiced a policy of preference for public ore designed to ensure a continuous supply of ore for processing at the company's mills. This practice provided quick returns for individual miners and encouraged them to work their claims more effectively. At Fischerton the company purchased the winnings of many of the old prospectors who scratched a living from the area's alluvial deposit. Output at the Tate Tin Mines was usually in the order of .
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Jeong Sang-jin, originally from Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang Province, moved to Seoul in 2002, where he scratched a living with part-time jobs as food delivery man or parking valet, though as of April 2008 he was unemployed and had to face severe financial difficulties. According to unconfirmed reports, he was convicted eight times, once for skipping an obligatory training for military reservists, for which he was fined of 1.5 million won. During interrogations, he said he was persecuted since his childhood days and attempted suicide twice during his time at middle school. He claimed that he occasionally suffered from severe headaches since those attempts.
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The poet John Burell described the variety of precious stones worn by the "Moirs" in nineteen stanzas of verse. According to Burrell, these men represented the "Moirs" of "the Inds" who lived in comparative ease and comfort by the golden mountain of "Synerdas" and came to honour the queen in Edinburgh, unlike the followers of Faunus who scratched a living in the wilderness; > "Thir are the MOIRS, of quhom I mene, > Quha dois inhabit in the ynds: > Leving thair land and dwelling place, > For to do honour to hir Grace. > Thay have na scant, nor indigence, > Quhair thay do dwell, and have exces, > Nor yit thay have na residence, > With PHAUNUS, God of wildernes: > Bot thay do dwell, quhair thay were wont, > Beside SYNERDAS goldin mont."Papers Relative to the Marriage of James VI > (Edinburgh, 1828), 'Discription', pp. v-vi.: 'THE DISCRIPTION OF THE QVEENS > MAIESTIES MAIST HONORABLE ENTRY INTO THE TOVN OF EDINBVRGH, VPON THE 19.
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