Instead, dollar debasement repels capital and over time, raises prices inflicting a penurious tax on producers.

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Only a few generations earlier, their ancestors had been living a desperate, penurious life in the intractable deserts of northern Arabia.

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He founded the Basle Chamber Orchestra in 1926, when he was a penurious 20-year-old, and with the aid of donations from friends almost immediately started commissioning pieces.

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The Clinton administration provided seed money for both initiatives despite its penurious approach to military procurement, recognizing that most of the spending would occur after it had left office.

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Two years into the intifada, the Islamic group is now a dominant power in the occupied territories, and nowhere more than in the penurious, besieged towns and refugee camps of Gaza.

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It was only when optimistic Turks started snapping up imports that investors began to doubt that foreign capital inflows would be sufficient to fund both spendthrift consumers and the perennially penurious government.

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Small or penurious institutions are deprived of their treasures, and objects which, for one reason or another, cannot be lent are increasingly neglected: less and less attention is paid, for example, to large pictures and artists who specialised in them.

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