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The idea that college has any connection to the real word is hard to defend when the job market demands that educators live like monks -- poverty-ridden, itinerant, and isolated from the real world.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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In an interview with Studs Terkel – part of which can be heard here – Alinsky describes his method in a nutshell, sketching a dialogue with the tenant of poverty-ridden, cockroach-infested housing:What would happen if you didn't pay your rent?
Saul Alinsky: who is he and why does Newt Gingrich keep mentioning him? 2012
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I met a lot of those kind of people while I worked at a BP in a poverty-ridden neighborhood while in college.
I once said I have nothing against bad television « Dating Jesus 2009
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The idea that college has any connection to the real word is hard to defend when the job market demands that educators live like monks -- poverty-ridden, itinerant, and isolated from the real world.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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He left out poverty-ridden (second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, barely beating out Haiti), oppressed, run by a powerful Marxist leader highly hostile to the United States, who is currently trying to circumvent his own country's constitution in order to gain himself another, illegal, term in office.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Not About Yve 2010
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He left out poverty-ridden (second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, barely beating out Haiti), oppressed, run by a powerful Marxist leader.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Not About Yve 2010
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Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt set in-motion an equitable remedy against poverty-ridden old age, an achievement that America will celebrate on August 14th.
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He left out poverty-ridden (second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, barely beating out Haiti), oppressed, run by a powerful Marxist leader highly hostile to the United States, who is currently trying to circumvent his own country's constitution in order to gain himself another, illegal, term in office.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Not About Yve 2010
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While the earthquake happened in an instant, it took years of corporatocracy actions to create such a poverty-ridden country.
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He left out poverty-ridden (second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, barely beating out Haiti), oppressed, run by a powerful Marxist leader.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Not About Yve 2010
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