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  • The matriarch of the hard-press family might have lived in a tenement in a large urban area, a dilapidated frame house in a small city, a row house in a company town, a collapsing farmhouse on a small plot of land, or even a log cabin.

    More Work for Mother 8 -- 1890-1920: The Impoverished Other Half Linda 2008

  • The matriarch of the hard-press family might have lived in a tenement in a large urban area, a dilapidated frame house in a small city, a row house in a company town, a collapsing farmhouse on a small plot of land, or even a log cabin.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Linda 2008

  • You have to decide whether they're right to offer a big election year tax cut that would blow a hole in the deficit, require even bigger cuts than the ones I vetoed last year, and raise taxes again on 8 million hard-press working people, or whether you like my plan to balance the budget, invest in Medicare and Medicaid, education and the environment, and give families targeted tax cuts we can afford.

    President Remarks To People Of Las Cruces Nm ITY National Archives 1996

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