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“Keeping down prices usually means keeping down labor costs. That is where immigrant labor comes in.”

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The work there has included arranging bales of straw on the sand, which has enabled native shrubs to take root and begin to keep down the blowing dust.

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One issue the neighbourhood teams are homing in on is loneliness - they have identified this as a way to keep down hospital numbers.

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For two weeks, Betts could hardly eat solid foods, failing to keep down the little he did consume.

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One issue the neighbourhood teams are honing in on is loneliness - they have identified this as a way to keep down hospital numbers.

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

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