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...subject matter of economics is the productive system, with all its relations to the world of technology. The concern of economics, however, is this system's role in society and its effect on men, their livelihood, and their institutions. Not an integrator of the two cultures, nevertheless it must span the separation...
...among Italian ports; today it is eighth. Trieste's maritime traffic has dropped 25% in the past two years, and rail traffic is less than half the 1957 rate. More than 17,000 Triestini (12% of the labor force) are unemployed, and the number of "disguised unemployed"-their livelihood provided by government make-work projects-is steadily increasing...
...wary answer. "That is a matter for the government of Finland," he said, "which will take steps, of course, to see that Finland's interests are not hurt in the building of such blocs. In the Soviet Union, we are opposed to such blocs." Weighing their economic livelihood against their political existence in the way that they must do almost every day of their lives, Finns said just as warily that they had better wait and see about joining their Outer Seven friends...
...Kyle Rote ('51), is shepherded with anxious concern by a coaching staff that knows that S.M.U., with not much of a ground offensive, is heavily dependent on his bullwhip right arm. The coaches have still not recovered from the shock of learning that Meredith risked their livelihood by repeatedly falling off a motor scooter while navigating the winding roads of Majorca last summer. Cracks one coach: "If something happens to Meredith, we'll have to resort to the confused T with the unbalanced coach in motion...
...Calcutta's exotic Places of the Golden Trees, where the girls regale their more cultivated clients with recitations from Bengali poets, business seemed to be going on pretty much as usual. But one Allahabad prostitute, more militant, went to court, arguing that, by depriving her of her livelihood, the new law "frustrated the very purpose of the welfare state...