Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pride, perhaps, during his years of prosperity, his frequent neglect of God - to give him a little lesson, why then any of the tragedies that had happened to him, any one would have sufficed to chasten him. But all together - the loss of both his children, his means of livelihood, Fanny's health and his - that was too much to ask one frail-boned man to endure. Who, after all, was Manischevitz that he had been given so much to suffer...
According to Kerr, a former tour golfer. Rajah has been his livelihood since 1956 when on a tour of New Delhi a boy gave him the bird. And since then, Kerr added. Rajah has been the source of good luck and inspiration for thousands of athletes, students, entertainers and even children in hospitals...
...longer the engineers of a great new society, federal workers have been left to flounder without a guiding ideology. The less-ismore theory of government exhorts these workers to embrace the liquidation of their livelihood and the ideals for which they have worked. Their fellowship is the camaraderie of a demolition crew, sharing a drink around the wrecking ball...
Congratulations on your choice of the computer. You have selected my livelihood, my friend and, according to my wife, my constant companion...
...nation's 10 million physically handicapped, telecommuting encourages new hopes of earning a livelihood. A Chicago-area organization called Lift has taught computer programming to 50 people with such devastating afflictions as polio, cerebral palsy and spinal damage. Lift President Charles Schmidt cites a 46-year-old man paralyzed by polio: "He never held a job in his life until he entered our program three years ago, and now he's a programmer for Walgreens...