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...foreseeable future. To most of the 220,000 whites, however, that would be suicide. They offered only two meaningless gestures: allowing more blacks to vote for the 15 African seats in parliament, and the creation of an almost powerless senate composed of twelve African chiefs (who depend for their livelihood on the government). Any further freedoms for the blacks were absolutely refused...
...Shakespeare, but they do like to get involved in the analysis of managerial problems. They are training to become professionals and their focus is on careers. They are not here to introspect but to improve managerial skills. Many have families to support; so in a sense, school is their livelihood. Motivated and disciplined, they study hard against the heavy workload which requires participation in four hours of classes and upwards of six hours of study each day. Daily work is more important than final exams. People rarely miss classes or fail to prepare their work...
Going a step beyond charity, the 12th century Spanish-Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, urged the well to do to "assist the reduced fellow by teaching him a trade or putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood." Queen Elizabeth I came to believe that care of the poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness...
...dominated Brazilian beekeeping: it will even work and make honey in weather that slows down other bees. Besides, Kerr planned to crossbreed his Africans to Produce a more gentle bee. What he got instead was a bee with a disposition so nasty that it now threatens the lives and livelihood of almost every beekeeper in eight states of Brazil-to say nothing of countless other Brazilians...
...lives and works on his 2,200-acre ranch. The Sentinel, near San Patricio in southern New Mexico. There he raises Brangus cattle and Thoroughbred horses, and has an apple orchard that produces in commercial quantity. The ranch is really an avocation ("Luckily, it's not my livelihood"), and Peter at times starts out to ride the range with his foreman and fails to get where he is heading because he stops to sketch scenes that particularly catch his eye. During the sittings for the cover painting (the background shows Shuman's farm in Illinois), artist and subject...