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The loss of tax revenue is a double-blow to the poor, who suffer from both underfunded public services and exclusion from quality housing stock.
Michelle Chen: New York Sits on Empty Housing While the Poor Face Displacement Michelle Chen 2010
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The loss of tax revenue is a double-blow to the poor, who suffer from both underfunded public services and exclusion from quality housing stock.
Michelle Chen: New York Sits on Empty Housing While the Poor Face Displacement 2010
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The loss of tax revenue is a double-blow to the poor, who suffer from both underfunded public services and exclusion from quality housing stock.
Michelle Chen: New York Sits on Empty Housing While the Poor Face Displacement 2010
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It's a double-blow for a civil service undermined by shortsighted economic planning, patronage, and the failure of the private sector to provide adequate incomes.
Michelle Chen: Greece on Fire as Debt Crisis Ignites Eurozone 2010
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Mueller: I am not a doctor, you understand, but the 'double-blow' referred to a virus, or actually a pair of them that worked like a prize fighter.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Now today's double-blow to the Gore campaign puts the Florida Supreme Court right back on the hot seat, facing two key cases.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: The Florida Vote - December 4, 2000 2000
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JOHANNESBURG, March 28 (Reuter) - Hopes for free and fair elections and much - needed foreign investment in South Africa were dealt a double-blow on Monday with mayhem in Johannesburg and rampant violence in Natal.
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This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a second.
The Enormous Room 1928
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'You win some, you lose some,' PM says of Speaker's double-blow to Tories Disclaimer
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'You win some, you lose some,' PM says of Speaker's double-blow to Tories Disclaimer
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed STEVEN CHASE 2011
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