1.   And that could take a big chunk out of currently meager earnings and push some farms into red ink.

2.   But even as he squirrels away his meager earnings, thousands of other migrants are queuing up for the chance to buy their way into the EU.

3.   Despite their meager earnings, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao were determined to help their children succeed.

4.   Martinez is one of the hundreds or perhaps thousands of farm workers whose already meager earnings have drastically fallen due to the persistent rains.

5.   One of the traditions that ordinary Tibetans keep alive is saving their meager earnings for years in order to make a pilgrimage to Lhasa.

6.   Others returned, very often exchanging the ongoing indignities of a refugee camp for the meager earnings of a family farm.

7.   She continued to support her husband and daughter on her meager earnings as a writer.

8.   The news startled Valley vendors, who say meager earnings, cutthroat competition and belligerent customers plague their work days.

9.   The value of NFL officials is about much more than comparatively meager earnings and that point could be bitterly driven home to NFL fans this fall.

10.   Back in Honduras, washing cars for meager earnings, he dreams of returning to the United States.