1.   And yet the owners dare to cry poverty.

2.   Although baseball is more prosperous than ever, its acting commissioner, Bud Selig, keeps crying poverty.

3.   It was not the owners crying poverty who threatened the bubble of bliss that again surrounds baseball.

4.   Other hard-line club owners, some of whom have been crying poverty, surely were questioned by some of their colleagues.

5.   The owners are crying poverty and yet they keep raising salaries and ticket prices.

6.   Union officials say while owners cry poverty, they always make profits when they sell their teams and bidders are waiting to buy even the most distressed teams.

7.   Will teams already crying poverty be able to handle an additional few million dollars by adding bodies to their major-league club?

8.   However, studios should not use the shaky market as an excuse to cry poverty, said Cheryl Rhoden, spokeswoman for the WGA.

9.   I am not crying poverty here -- expatriates live well in this country, although many do not enjoy the fantastic incomes imagined by Indonesians.