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...enough to achieve development. Societies must pay attention to social goals as well, always leaning toward their most vulnerable citizens, and overcoming deep-rooted biases to invest in the health and well-being of girls as well as boys. In a world in which 1.5 billion people subsist on less than $1 a day, this Nobel Prize can be not just a celebration of a wonderful scholar but also a clarion call to attend to the urgent needs and hopes of the world's poor...
...station, which moved its transmitter from the top of Holyoke Center to One Financial Center in Boston after a fundraising drive in 1995, sells on-air advertising to subsist, and plays the time-tested music that its loyal listeners enjoy...
That sort of approach may be greatly appreciated by Spencer or any of the dozens of other wealthy and powerful personalities with whom Gumbel, like any celebrity journalist, is acquainted. But a newsmagazine cannot subsist on a diet of such interviews alone, and the truth is that the competition for guests of every stripe has become awfully fierce...
...life cuisine. One morning at the recent Sundance Film Festival, the co-chairman of Miramax Films eagerly devoured a greasy omelette (the secret ingredient: cholesterol) while schmoozing with a reporter about art, movies and life in general. It's been said that a family of four could subsist for a month on the crumbs that stick to Weinstein's shirt. That family may soon need to find other means of dietary support: the big guy has shed 50 lbs. and is down to a merely huge 225. He hopes to drop 65 lbs. more. "I want to be Paul Newman...
...graduate teachers' entire grievance has been based on the idea that they are entitled to a certain amount of money on which to subsist in New Haven. But no such entitlement exists; Yale has no obligations beyond what is said in the financial aid contract that all of these students have already accepted...