Exploration and production companies often run deficits and live hand to mouth trying to raise funds to do more exploration.

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And given the way they are being forced to live hand to mouth in this way, dependent on central bank support, they can be seen as zombie banks.

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Higher gas prices are reducing the frequency of store visits and the lack of salary growth in the face of rising commodity prices are forcing more Americans to live hand to mouth.

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Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do.

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Instead, opportunities for jobs and advancement remain close to zero, and the vast majority of people continue to live a hand-to-mouth existence by American standards.

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Better bulls, of course, mean worse injuries for the cowboys who usually live hand-to-mouth and earn only when they win.

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They live in near-constant silence, stoically bearing the drudgery of their hand-to-mouth existence.

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