These show us vast spaces of basic survival, and yes, often amazing entrepreneurial spirit.

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It believes Iranian troops will have a far better chance of combat survival in a vast regional battle ground which they get to define.

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But these letters, she says, are more than a family's chronicle of survival: They document a vast network of Nazi slave labor camps, about which very little has been written even today.

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With its vast population and finte resources, India lives closer to the edge of survival than many countries.

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