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An important condition was the transition from a subsistence economy to a monetary economy.† (source)
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"Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families," Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York.† (source)
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We're also trying to keep open the agricultural extension program, training former rubber workers to subsistence farming.† (source)
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There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space — it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole.† (source)
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The state of inactivity, in which this army has lain for some time, by no means corresponds with my wishes, by some decisive stroke, to relieve my country from the heavy expense its subsistence must create.† (source)
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Subsistence farming, cotton-growing, basket-weaving, the chopping and selling of mesquite branches to white town-dwellers for firewood—these were the hard features of survival for most Pima Indians during Ira's boyhood.† (source)
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The subsistence individual, with cropped hair and bony shoulders.† (source)
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PoorYoga Janet was a vegetarian and resigned herself to a subsistence diet most of the time.† (source)
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I liked the trips of course—I drew operational subsistence which helped.† (source)
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The ruling class paid African labor a subsistence wage and then added value to the cost of the goods, which they retained for themselves.† (source)
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Her mother-in-law had cut back on her food, allowing her only one-third of the rice required for subsistence.† (source)
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In the bazaar, Mortenson could see that the people of Baharak, who grew, rather than trafficked, opium, lived in a subsistence economy like the Balti.† (source)
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Most of them only see the ungiving soil from which a man must wrestle his subsistence and the barriers that shut him out from the world.† (source)
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She was managing to survive slightly above the subsistence level, but only because she was lucky.† (source)
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They will depend on their job for subsistence.† (source)
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You have never discovered the industrial age-and you cling to the morality of the barbarian eras when a miserable form of human subsistence was produced by the muscular labor of slaves.† (source)
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