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3 unusual facts about Cost of living


Grocery retailing in Russia

Moscow city, with its very high living costs and large population of low-income shoppers, remains a stronghold of market trading.

Skateboarding sponsorship

The sponsored skateboarder may also receive monetary payments to cover living expenses (while competing "on behalf" of the sponsor) or travel expenses (when travelling to interstate or overseas competitions).

Union of Australian Women

The UAW started off in an environment hostile to the notion of women joining the workforce, despite the availability of work, availability of time afforded by advances in domestic technology, and the necessity for working-class households to meet rising costs of living (another target of the UAW's efforts; see below).



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ALCO Stores

The company previously experimented with a combination discount and food store called C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Adjusters) in Mineral Wells, Texas, which was discontinued.

Demographics of Singapore

Member of Parliament Low Thia Khiang of the Workers' Party of Singapore had criticized current measures of increasing the fertility rate, claiming that the high cost of living and lack of family and social support discouraged young couples from having babies.

Froben Christopher of Zimmern

In the winter 1of 540/41 but they continued their studies in Tours, as the cost of living in Angers had become too high.

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

How to Beat the High Cost of Living is a 1980 comedy film, starring Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James and Jessica Lange.

James T. Slater

James recently was nominated for the country song of the year Grammy for Jamey Johnson's "The High Cost of Living".

Mack Reynolds

After searching for a place with a low cost of living, they moved to Taos, New Mexico, where Reynolds met science fiction writers Walt Sheldon and Fredric Brown.

Monsey Church

Along with a rising trend in the cost of living, an increasing number of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews have settled in Monsey and the immediate area.

Puerto Rico Iron Works

Puerto Rico Iron Works, under Luis Ferre's leadership, was the first company doing business in Puerto Rico to implement several labor measures that would not be adopted by the Puerto Rico Legislature until decades later, among them the institution of a Christmas bonus for employees to supplement the cost-of-living increases during financially difficult times; and the incorporation of a pension fund.

Switchmen's Union of North America

When the railroad owners rejected this John R. Steelman, the President's representative, defined a proposed settlement that included wage increases and cost of living adjustments.