21.   While the collapse of the rupiah has sent food prices skyward, workers are simultaneously losing their meager incomes amid a monsoon of bad economic news.

22.   Without it, their meager income appears doomed.

23.   Another factor is the generally meager income of a university lecturer.

24.   For decades, poor peasants have been cutting down pine trees to make charcoal and supplement their meager income.

25.   Many state professors are forced to get second teaching jobs in the private sector to supplement their meager incomes.

26.   Many have been obliged to seek outside jobs to supplement their meager incomes, or to quit the profession.

27.   She embroiders clothes in her mud-and-thatch shack in New Delhi to supplement the meager income of her handyman father and her mother, a maid.

28.   The tumbling concrete and shattering glass disfigured and blinded hundreds of others, leaving them unable to work and stretching already meager family incomes.

29.   The women sell seedlings and plants, allowing them to supplement meager family incomes.

30.   They resorted to the trade to augment meager incomes or, for the nearly one-fifth unemployed, to make a little money to survive.