Word: livelihoods
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...treaty, it is clear that this cautious attitude has completely turned around. Melting glaciers, hotter summers and migrations of plants, animals and even deadly microbes have convinced virtually every climate scientist on earth that human activity has indeed started to warm the planet. Even business and labor leaders whose livelihood depends on the production and use of fossil fuels acknowledge the problem. "The science would indicate," says United Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts, "that there is something happening here." The CEO of American Electric Power, quoted in the current issue of FORTUNE, agrees. "It's clear to me that there...
...Saddam around town. In one area, Iraqis claimed that officials took down his pictures after citizens smeared them with excrement. Iraqis have clearly had enough of the hardships caused by economic sanctions, and Saddam's putting all the blame on the U.S. is wearing thin. Iraqis have seen their livelihood collapse and their savings eroded by inflation. "We've sold our refrigerator, our sitting-room chairs, our beds," said a young man in a juice shop. "Now my family is sleeping on the floor." Nowhere is the agony more visible than in the hospitals, where doctors complain about shortages...
...Underage drinkers] risk the livelihood of a business person. To have that [livelihood] placed in the hands of a youngster who doesn't understand the finality of [the offense] is a very sad thing," she said
...everything through the prism of the self and its well-being; that this craving can be transcended, leading to peace and eventually to an exalted state of full enlightenment called Nirvana; and that the means to do that lies in the Eightfold Path of proper views, resolve, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration...
...This is our livelihood, so it's difficult for us and all of the storeowners," T.C. said. "We have nowhere else...