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...still include a Government-paid staff of six, a Secret Service detail and a limousine). Friends have been able to raise only $40,000 toward paying his legal bills, which may exceed $200,000. Last week, rejecting Agnew's plea "not to strip me of my means of livelihood," a three-judge panel appointed by the Maryland Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that Agnew should be disbarred. Said the court: "We see no extenuating circumstances allowing a lesser sanction." A final ruling by the full Appeals Court is expected by March...
...strip me of my means of livelihood," pleaded Lawyer Agnew to the panel of three judges, his voice nearly breaking. "Do not impose upon me the ultimate sanction. I ask you instead to impose a reasonable period of suspension ... so that at some later day I might resume my practice and attempt to bring credit upon my state and upon my profession...
...would be grossly unfair to thousands of Americans who must use their cars for their livelihood to be taxed as much as 40? a gallon for gasoline...
...area, the residents of that desert region are talking mostly about the effect the power plant is having on the once beautiful vistas that the crystal clear air afforded. In rural Arkansas, residents are talking about the effect which the power plant is going to have on their economic livelihood. Rural Arkansas is cotton and soybean country, and scientific studies have long ago demonstrated the susceptibility of cotton and beans to damage by extremely low levels of sulfur dioxide in the air. The farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou don't want to see their means of making...
...that the strings can be pulled in more ways than one. They know that Harvard is in a position to see to it that if AP&L builds their plant they build it in such a way as to minimize the threat which the plant poses to the economic livelihood of rural Arkansas. Consequently, the farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou, organized into the ACORN Protect Our Land Association, ask Harvard to exert pressure on Middle South Utilities to do the following things...