Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reveal his formula for success--where to stand, when to work, what to say--those are secrets of his trade. He emphasizes that this is his livelihood; that information...
...desirable feature of relationships. Isn't procreation a necessary part of an elevated relationship if it is complete? It is hard to think of the business of conceiving and raising the next generation as merely optional, in which society has no interest. Surely we teachers depend for our livelihood on an ever-renewed supply of young people. And what of shame? Where is the protection--always as difficult to justify as it is indispensable--for human dignity...
...plan -- a 239-page brick of plain white paper printed last Tuesday and stamped PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL -- would represent the boldest, most expensive social initiative since the New Deal, bigger even than F.D.R.'s institution of Social Security half a century ago. It would intimately affect the health and livelihood of every American, while shifting billions of dollars in costs and savings among the country's biggest industries and tiniest shops. And despite occasional press leaks, the First Lady, assigned by the President to oversee health reform, jealously guarded the full text of the proposal...
...from parental responsibilities. The communitarian movement -- which seeks to shore up the moral, social and political foundations of society -- is closer to the mark. Communitarians, for whom I often speak, envision a family in which fathers and mothers share the tribulations and jobs of parenting and of securing a livelihood...
...machine gun and the sergeant's collection of whips. The only work to be found is making charcoal that is shipped by boat to the slums of Port-au-Prince, but with each tree that is cut and burned, more soil washes away, and with it the village's livelihood. "We used to be able to grow cereal crops here, corn and rice," says Rene Coty, the local schoolteacher. "But no longer; the land has washed away. Instead we grow charcoal -- a crop with no future...