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If I have high IQ, I should welcome low IQ immigrants who can do the lawn-mowing and garbage-removal but don't compete with me for the statistical analyst jobs.
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The Swedish government allows people to deduct from their tax bill half the cost of household services such as cleaning, cooking, lawn-mowing, snow-shovelling and babysitting.
David Cameron tempted to offer tax breaks to hire cleaners 2012
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Young people with lawn-mowing businesses who don't wear earplugs or those who work on the farm around loud farm equipment are at risk.
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It's totally a comparative advantage situation in that I've got the credentials the corporate world likes and I've got a higher tolerance for the corporate world; my husband is more picky about housekeeping, is a much better cook, and can do all sorts of maintenance (electrical work, carpentry, lawn-mowing) that I can't.
Feminism and Just Price Theory, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I was already spending my lawn-mowing income on D&D materials, so I was pretty careful about long-term comics commitments.
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Young people with lawn-mowing businesses who don't wear earplugs or those who work on the farm around loud farm equipment are at risk.
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Of thoughtless lawn-mowing on early weekend mornings.
A Free Rinse Matt Potter 2011
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And now here is, larger than she ever imagined, a learner's permit tucked in the bottom of his left shoe, lawn-mowing earnings tucked into the bottom of his right shoe, and he has yet to wipe his own bottom.
White Bread Jessica Anya Blau 2011
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With lawn-mowing businesses, hand-painting of tennis shoes or Bosnian-language computer repairs, teens are bucking long odds in the dismal job market and earning their own mall money or cash for college.
Who's the Boss? When Jobs Are Scarce, the Kids Are Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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The gardening books will be left at home – with his girlfriend and the lawn-mowing dog.
Toby Flood: England's minimum aim is to make the World Cup semi-finals 2011
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