The would-be brokers that he fed into the market were just trying to make a living in a business that seemed more lucrative and easier than selling the drugs that had put them in prison to begin with.

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People are just trying to make a decent living and do their bit to keep places alive.

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They come here because they just want to be able to make a living to survive.

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MoneyRates.com, a source of information on bank rates, personal finance, savings accounts and investing, just released its third annual ranking of the best and worst places to make a living.

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Mississippi and Rhode Island came in just ahead of Hawaii, making them the second and third worst places to make a living.

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"Just as the government wants to deal with opium cultivators by showing them a different way to make a living, so it is trying to deal with leaders by showing them too there's a different way of making a living, " says a diplomat in Yangon.

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