Word: subsists
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Isolated from outsiders until the early 1900s, some 24,000 Yanomami still dwell in Brazil and Venezuela. They live in doughnut-shaped communal homes, have no written language, wear no clothes, use rudimentary tools and subsist by hunting, fishing and cultivating a variety of crops, including sweet potatoes and bananas...
Even worse for Trump's ego, the big spender will have to subsist on a % monthly allowance, which bankers will supervise. Instead of the staggering $583,000 that he spent on food, shelter and other living expenses in May, Trump will be required to limit himself to a merely stupendous $450,000 a month for the rest of 1990. His allowance will shrink to $375,000 in 1991 and a stingy...
Spread throughout the jungles that straddle Burma and Thailand, the rebels have settled into a life of well-ordered predictability. They subsist on teak logging and farming, attend church, send their children to school and adhere to a strict penal code (adultery carries the death penalty). Though there is no electricity at Manerplaw headquarters, a generator supplies power for that most prized necessity, a VCR. The leaders tend to be melancholy idealists, sad-eyed dreamers who pass evenings drafting and redrafting a Karen constitution for use in the improbable event that independence will be achieved. Gentle in gesture and speech...