Word: livelihoods
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After a lifetime working land inherited from his father and grandfather, Dale Burr was going broke. He found himself, at age 63, more than half a million dollars in debt on the 560 acres in Lone Tree, Iowa, that constituted his livelihood, home and heritage. While visiting his brother-in-law Keith Forbes late last month, the ordinarily tight-lipped farmer and his wife Emily, 64, bemoaned their financial troubles for four hours. "We haven't even got money for groceries," Emily confided. Said Forbes: "It hurt Dale not to be able to pay his debts. He said the Hills...
Wilkinson has to rely on snippets like this and bombard the reader with 16-page quotations that lose their vigor as the ink dries on the page. I want to see the Garland Bunting that told David Letterman he wasn't concerned that his livelihood as an undercover agent was threatened by an appearance on national television. No, after all these years, Bunting told Letterman that after more than 30 years of law enforcement, a little national exposure might add a little challenge and make his conniving games more interesting...
...should know. For the past 60 years the state agency has controlled the very ebb and flow of my livelihood--so to speak. When my grass gets overgrown, they trim it. When my streams get more polluted, they check my water quality for would-be swimmers. And when I need repairs, they...well...
...Caspar Weinberger '38 informed Congress that one, less dime for defense will surely invite a Russian invasion? And how often do we hear that any cut in the near-bankrupt Social Security program would loss those over 60 into the streets? Every group depending on the government for its livelihood claims that any cuts in its programs would devastate everything this nation stands for obliterating valued traditions and long-held values...
Above all, Siles, who in 1982 inherited a presidency that had changed hands 13 times in twelve years, is well aware that challenging his people's livelihood could bring about his political demise. Warns an aide to Roberto Suarez Gomez, one of the country's most flamboyant coca suppliers (see box): "U.S. pressures could lead to another revolution and a takeover by another repressive military government or, worse, by the leftists...