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...liquid cash to front costs for which reimbursement is uncertain. The vast majority of student groups cannot afford to do so and will likely have to scale back their activities dramatically. That the College and the UC would let the stakes run so high as to threaten the livelihood of student groups demonstrates a clear irresponsibility toward the students that both the administration and the Council claim to serve. Beyond the harm done to individual student groups, House life too has been dealt a severe blow by the College’s new measures. HoCos, which rely heavily...
...survival. So has Obin: by working almost exclusively in batik, she has created a business that supports about 2,500 employees. Among them are dozens of artisans practicing their craft at home or in small studios across Java. "I am grateful that this type of business can provide a livelihood for so many people," she says. "Batik is our heritage and we must preserve...
What the Doubters Say: Despite France's 1999 ban, bee numbers there continued to drop. Studies of CCD have found no common environmental factor, meaning that Imidacloprid too could be simply one of many causes. All the unanswered questions have beekeepers buzzing. "Something out there is ruining my livelihood," says David Hackenberg, the Pennsylvania beekeeper who first reported CCD. "And there's nothing I can do about...
...Witherspoon-Gyllenhaal Rendition. Both are fictionalized expos?s: the first of corporate malfeasance, the second of Bush Administration policy in its war on Muslim extremists. At the center of each is a man trapped in a dilemma between doing what is damn well expected of him and risking his livelihood, and maybe his life, by doing the right thing...
...Will it work? "The policy is completely untenable," says Kishwar. "We have worked with the MCD on model hawker bazaars, but these don't work. Street vendors make their livelihood under conditions that cannot be created artificially in a new area." Narain Das, a food vendor in the Nehru Place commercial complex, says most vendors are ruled out from the start because they cannot comply with the court's hygiene requirements. "And where will they find land to build shops for hundreds of thousands of us?" he asks. Commercial property prices in Delhi are similar to those in major financial...