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• s  barely satisfying a lower standard
  the sharecropper's hardscrabble life

• Things are worse in hardscrabble Zacatecas state, whose population has grown a mere 6% in the 10 years in which that of Mexico has grown 20%.
• They're playing cricket, of course, and for these prepubescents hoping to find a way out of hardscrabble lives, there is only one role model.
• Yet in each of Goody's incarnations and in her hardscrabble past as the daughter of a drug-addicted, mixed-race petty criminal and a needy mother (a lesbian who lost the use of her .

News & Articles

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• Reported road closures for New York
  The steady rains are causing road closures in the Clinton and Franklin counties in New York. And one Vermont road has been closed. Clinton County emergency management lists the following road closures and traffic alerts: Clinton County closures: True Brook Road between Rt 3 and Standish Rd. Bowen Road between Hardscrabble Rd and Rt 3.River Road between Rt 3 and Cold Brook Rd.Cold Brook Rd ...
  June 12, 2013 - WPTZ Burlington
• Erdogan’s Barber Among Supporters Saying It’s Time to Cool Down
  Ahmet Guler, who says he cut Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hair for 20 years in the hardscrabble Istanbul neighborhood they both hail from, has some barberly advice for the prime minister: cool off.
  June 11, 2013 - Bloomberg
• Joe Cardona: Miami’s dwindling middle class
  Amid the glitz and glam that is symbolic of Miami’s image (recently perpetuated by the televised shots of the millionaires’ row that usually occupies the Miami Heat’s lower bowl seats during meaningful games) lies the well-hidden, little publicized, hardscrabble economic reality of most Miamians.
  June 7, 2013 - Miami Herald

Quotes

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• Nick Rahall in Beckley Register-Herald (registration)
  I think the world of politics would have a better reputation if more politicians lived the kind of hardscrabble life that Sen. Byrd endured in his younger days,Rahall said.
• John Daly in ArkansasSports360.com
  I'm probably going to have a lot more pressure, playing at home,Daly said last month when he announced his plans to play in Fort Smith. "But it's worth it to me. I've played Hardscrabble; I remember playing there a lot of times in...
• Holland Taylor in New York Times
  I can't tell you how hardscrabble, how difficult, how nickel-and-dime my first 15 years in New York were,Ms. Taylor said. "It was really quite difficult. And people always thought I had money or came from money. But I never had a dime...