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Some of the women she interviewed saw abortion as "a stop-gap measure to protect the livelihood of the [woman] and her family," Halkias said...
...choice to go pro is not one that most athletes face coming out of college. The prospects of making sport their livelihood, rather than just an extracurricular activity, are daunting, even for those with the talent to compete on the highest level...
Economic theory has caught up to the reality that basic and higher education plays an increasingly important role in the determination of incomes and livelihood. Human capital can be defined as the skills and technical knowledge workers possess. It is analogous to physical capital in that it is a complement to labor productivity and (by extenion) a complement to labor demand. It is also analogous to physical capital in that it represents the outcome of an investment: a costly expenditure in which benefits are spread out over a long period of time...
...government did not respond when someone gave away a million dollars in software,'' says Scott Charney, who heads the U.S. Justice Department's computer-crimes unit, ``we'd essentially be saying that you can give away software as much as you want.'' Protecting the rights -- in fact the livelihood -- of commercial software makers is only one of many challenges facing authorities as they try to police cyberspace. Tricky legal issues abound, such as the admissibility of computer evidence. And law enforcers are often inadequately prepared for the tasks. As a result, more and more federal agents at the FBI Academy...
...National Restaurant Association that stirred to action, sending local TV stations satellite feeds of busboys and waitresses fretting about their imperiled jobs. And the restaurateurs hired Jack Bonner to roll out the Astroturf. "I see it as the triumph of democracy," Bonner said of his livelihood in a Washington Post interview. "In a democracy, the more groups taking their message to the people outside the Beltway and the more people taking their message to Congress, the better off the system...