1.   As rural logging jobs dry up, elephants and their handlers are eking out a meager existence on the mean streets of Thailand.

2.   Bloodworms enjoy a meager existence squirming around the coastal mud flats of New England and Canada until they are plucked from the muck by licensed harvesters during low tides.

3.   But life for many Hutu remains grim as they scratch out a meager existence in a country where the local population does not want them.

4.   In New York, he returned to his meager existence in a room in the McBurney YMCA.

5.   It was a meager existence.

6.   Most ranchers and miners are also barely clinging to what city dwellers would consider a meager existence.

7.   Others eke out meager existences and wait patiently for better days.

8.   To some, meager existence is an affront.

9.   Even the occasional clashes in remote northern regions usually occur where Shiites own prime land and Sunni tribesmen eke out a meager existence on the mountains.

10.   None of the workers questioned at the site had heard of the World Bank, but they had been told Wolfensohn was the man who funded their meager existences.