strapped

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When residents are cash-strapped, they drift to bigger towns for better prices, and the small town shops lose.

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  • While a protracted economic slump may increase illegal logging in cash-strapped areas and reduce governments 'commitment to green goals, declining demand worldwide for wood products and commercial forest-cultivated food may also save some forests - in the short term. —  IRIN
  • The Harper government axed the Court Challenges Program, which allowed cash-strapped organizations to launch language and equality appeals based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. —  Political Affairs Magazine
  • Marketing has a bigger challenge than ever on its hands now in finding the right balance to appeal to cash-strapped or spending-averse consumers. —  Marketing Profs Daily Fix
  • These include helping often resource-strapped organizations fulfill their missions and improving the conditions of other people as well as your surroundings.
  • REAL kings fought, they had a sword strapped to them, ready to fight, next to there troops …. bush is not a king, but a dirty filthy lieing coward …. bush would cancel the war, if he had to fight,,, or run away … mr bush will loose the war … history will show, that kings and leaders of today are all cowards and have zero courage …. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
 

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strapped:   strapping ·  straps ·  strap
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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