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“I’m taking my chances and hoping I can just get by and that we don’t have any home or dental emergencies,” Frew said.

As for current trading, he says, he is getting by.

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He wants his children to do better, but for now, he needs their help to get by.

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By Smithsonian magazine’s tally, Americans got by with a mere 20 million photocopies a year in the late 1950s.

With some Americans struggling with multiple jobs just to get by, extended trading hours would allow them to be able to get in “to play,” he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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