• The kids often end up forming squatter families in order protect each other as best they can.

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  • The summer before enrolling at Radcliffe, she worked on a child-vaccination project in a Brazilian squatter settlement.

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  • Also, it would be really weird if a domain squatter guessed the name.

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  • All these frustrations boiled over into a race riot in a squatter community outside Kuala Lumpur in March 2001.

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  • He had located a place at a pre-city squatter settlement where he could stay and work with a slum-based carpenter.

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  • Most of the world's poor live in densely populated squatter settlements and lack many of the basics of human survival.

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  • One of the strongest points of view I came across recently was Robert Neuwirth on his squatter town blog.

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  • At 1pm almost all the sun loungers are empty and, feeling like a seaside squatter, I nab one in the front row.

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  • "Our students, from squatter camps and townships, were learning from people who had done three billion rand business deals, " said Dr Blecher.

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  • Berlin's squatter movement reached its apogee 30 years ago in the west.

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  • It is what is commonly meant when people talk about "squatter's rights".

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  • Squatters occupying non-residential buildings will still be able to claim "squatter's rights".

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  • Yet, in front of this same squatter settlement, there are still many foreign industries, producing everything from metal barrels, electronics, bread and textiles.

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  • On the silver screen, Estrada had typically played the role of the oppressed or the underdog -- farmer, squatter, drug addict, rebel leader.

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  • Lacking title to his land patch or milk cow, and bedeviled by local bureaucrats from getting it, the poor man remains a squatter.

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  • Other types of squatter include people who have set up businesses, such as cafes, or community centres, or who want to preserve historic buildings.

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  • Indo-Fijians have also been turfed out of squatter settlements around Suva.

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  • Squatter camps are often built on wasteland beside major roads, so their residents sometimes have to brave 75mph traffic on foot to reach the nearest liquor store.

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  • Rome's flip side is a surprising alternative underbelly, centred on left-wing centri sociali (organised squats), grungy squatter arts centres that often have live music, and where dressed-down is the look.

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  • At the squatter camp, I met a man who carries 40 litres of water in two containers, one and a half kilometres to his home every day.

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  • Department heads predict doomsday scenarios of overcrowded schools, hospitals with camp beds in the corridors, hillsides covered with squatter villages and unemployment mired for years in double figures.

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  • The contrast between the anonymous ordinariness of life in the Bronx and the ghettos and squatter camps that form European impressions of their Romani fellow-citizens could hardly be sharper.

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  • The same do-it-yourself spirit is alive in the Hotel Sao Paulo: hundreds of squatter families have set to work repairing its damaged woodwork and connecting up makeshift electricity and water supplies.

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  • This year, the World Series has a squatter.

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  • So much so that Ian Chappel is wondering how India remained the top Test team so far, saying that that its feeble bowling attack made it a "squatter rather than an owner" of the crown.

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  • She worked out an arrangement with the owner of the ribbon factory: the rent would be paid in cash, and if Shelly was discovered by the housing authorities the owner would claim that she was a squatter.

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  • Under the Kentucky system, any squatter whose claim went unchallenged for seven years, and who paid taxes on the land during that period, was eligible for a clear title to the property regardless of who had owned it previously.

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  • It tells officers not be deterred if they see a "squatter's rights" notice on the door as "the police have lawful authority under section 17 of PACE (the Police and Criminal Evidence Act) to enter the property to make an arrest".

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  • In 1993, one month after he moved into the simple home he'd built in Veteran's Village, a longtime squatter zone in Quezon City set aside for families of those who fought in World War II, a woman showed up claiming she owned his lot.

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  • In 1993, one month after Estillore moved in to the simple home he'd built in Veteran's Village, a longtime squatter zone in Quezon City set aside for families of those who fought in World War II, a woman showed up claiming she owned his lot.

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