Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolivia -- although processing it into cocaine is not -- and the fields produce the nation's only important cash crop. Bolivia's cocaine exports are worth at least $600 million a year, more than a third of its $1.5 billion in total annual exports. The cocaine trade provides a livelihood for up to 400,000 peasants, who have no other means of support...
...Africa has threatened that it might retaliate against sanctions by expelling the 350,000 contract laborers from neighboring black states who hold down jobs within the country. Since each migrant worker supports an estimated six people at home, roughly 2 million black Africans would be quickly stripped of their livelihood. Tiny Lesotho, to take one example, would not only be flooded with 140,000 returning workers, equivalent to more than 75% of its wage-labor force, but would also be deprived of their salary remittances, which currently exceed the country's entire gross domestic product. Earlier this year South Africa...
Nebraska farmer Lucille Bruns said that for the farmer, the family farm is "not just his home--it's his whole livelihood...
Mechelle Vinson, 30, says she had sex with her boss 40 or 50 times because he intimidated her. Standing outside the U.S. Supreme Court last week, she said, "My life was threatened. It was my survival, my livelihood." Surrounded by feminist lawyers who had come to offer support, Vinson turned as one of them declared, "I know a hundred women for every woman like you." Replied Vinson: "They can look at me as an example of hope, and they don't have to live in fear...
...Cosby Show. "Syndicating TV series, that's where the cash register is rung in this business," notes Anthony Hoffman, media analyst for Union Bank. "For the major studios involved in TV sitcoms, producing motion pictures is like playing polo on weekends. It's fun, but not crucial to their livelihood...