Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leslie Clark, 63, salmon fishing was a birthright -- a livelihood that has sustained four generations of his family. As a boy he learned from his father and grandfather the art of casting vast gill nets on the teeming waters of the Columbia River. After years of practice, he says, "you understand the fish and his ways. You know what he's going to do before...
...government seemingly bent on ignoring the long-term prosperity of its people. These economic pressure groups obtain the force of law for the coddling of their interests. In turn, they harm the purchasers of their own products and those in other nations who depend upon these industries for their livelihood...
...thousand times last week, helped lawyers explain that sexual harassment is not about civility. It is not about a man making an unwelcome pass, telling a dirty joke or commenting on someone's appearance. Rather it is an abuse of power in which a worker who depends for her livelihood and professional survival on the goodwill of a superior is made to feel vulnerable. "This is not automatically a male-female issue," says Wendy Reid Crisp, the director of the National Association for Female Executives, the largest women's professional association in the country. "We define this issue as economic...
...precisely the problem -- almost everyone is an extremist of one stripe or another when it comes to debating the legal system. Lawyers are advocates, and for some, no cause is more likely to arouse passion than the defense of a profession that, after exacting a grueling apprenticeship, provides their livelihood. The political system is apt to provide only limited succor; nearly half the members of Congress are lawyers. That is certainly one reason why nonlawyers feel compelled to resort to the weapon available to oppressed people everywhere -- sarcastic humor. (Q. Why does New Jersey have so much industrial waste...
...seen as a trifle excessive. If Reubens is guilty of anything, it is of making a very bad career move. Solitary sexual acts performed in public, even in a darkened movie theater showing fare expressly designed to stimulate sexual acts, are a legal no-no. For people whose livelihood depends on public image, committing such deeds where those individuals are likely to be recognized carries a heavier penalty, which, in Reubens' case, seems to be a kangaroo court, public hanging and quick burial on TV boot hill...