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In his comments, Rush Limbaugh suggests that children instead should seek cheap fast food or dumpster-dive to stave off hunger in the summer.
James D. Weill: FRAC Response to Rush Limbaugh's Summer Food Comment James D. Weill 2010
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When Limbaugh suggests children dumpster-dive, belittling the situation of hungry kids in America, he positions himself at the opposite end of the human spectrum from Swift.
James D. Weill: FRAC Response to Rush Limbaugh's Summer Food Comment James D. Weill 2010
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Even homeless people, who dumpster-dive and fight rats for aluminum cans will leave pennies on the ground.
This blog is worth every penny. Jay 2009
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Even homeless people, who dumpster-dive and fight rats for aluminum cans will leave pennies on the ground.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jay 2009
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Still, it is embarassing to watch your Senator dumpster-dive for a VP nomination from a failed candidacy.
Hillary Backer Bayh Pressing House Members Not to Endorse At All 2009
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Born to an Irish immigrant family in Pittsburgh, PA, he made his living as a plumber but used to dumpster-dive in steel mills and glass factories with pals, scavenging glass and metal to build telescopes and backyard observatories.
Boing Boing: October 29, 2006 - November 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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My avid Freecycling might make me a borderline "Freeganist", but I'm far from hard-core; I don't dumpster-dive for food.
Linda Keenan: Freecycle Offer: Seder for Hungry Jewish Strangers! 2008
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Thankfully, you don't have to dumpster-dive to subscribe to the freegan philosophy and reap the cost-saving benefits.
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Or, you can shop thrift stores, dumpster-dive and trash-pick.
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Or he'd dumpster-dive behind the Civic Cinema for leftover popcorn.
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