Starving artists would often sell potential goldmines to major powers like DC for a pittance.
Jobs is the Biblical Jacob and Xerox is Esau, squandering his birthright for a pittance.
His mother brought up three children on a pittance she earned as a schoolteacher.
Even so, the survivors received such a pittance that it is an international disgrace.
Though she could never live on the pittance she nets, her trips to races and photo expenses are deductible.
But since then, the traffic has plunged and the site had to be sold for a pittance.
Advising against a logo change might be the right thing to do, but it earns a pittance.
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Her post makes it sound like a real pittance is being spent on education across the board.
That pittance from her publisher forced her to make ends meet by trying journalism, which she enjoyed.
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Millions of rural poor growing crops for export earn a pittance and face rising prices of inputs.
For one year I could hire an employee and pay a pittance less on employer Social Security.
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Although many of the poorest now get some kind of government support, it is only a pittance.
Sugar barons had exploited the farmers for years, paying them a pittance for their cane, if at all.
By comparison, peak put open interest of 31, 010 contracts at the May 10 strike seems a mere pittance.
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She is soon ringed by hagglers wanting her paltry wares for even less than the pittance she asks.
It pays a pittance for the third child compared to the first two and nothing for any additional children.
But that includes many state-run universities, where in-state residents are charged a pittance.
So the effect will be near nothing for this number is a pittance.
One can argue, however, that it was a pittance compared to the amount those shares should have sold for.
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First, luring talented actors to Stratford to live in a bedsit on a pittance is hard, even for one season.
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Even this pittance was beyond the means of many Haitians, and she would accept perhaps a bag of fruit instead.
So Garcia, who owns 56% of the company, has hatched a new plan to buy the other 44% for a pittance.
What I find so curious is that margin credit on the Big Board is a pittance, but no heavy hitters, anywhere.
But the top exec maintained that the figures add up to a mere pittance: 7.7% profit margin for every dollar of sales.
England's poor laws, which paid a pittance to the destitute out of taxes, earned David Ricardo's condemnation in the early 19th century.
If your current savings account is offering you pittance compared with the market leaders, switching to the high interest savings account seems pretty smart.
Though the stipends are usually a pittance, they make a difference to the poorest because they are reliable unlike the rest of the poor's income.
One of their spokesmen explained that Russians would not be willing to log such hostile turf for the pittance the North Koreans were paid.
Selling gas in America for a pittance is not part of their script, particularly as everyone in the U.S. shale sector has left themselves overexposed.
The private sector, meanwhile, often pays little more than a pittance, exacerbating the massive inequalities between rich and poor in Brazil's society and effectively subsidising the public sector.
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