Word: subsistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Silver, told similar tales of woe. Each of them was laid off after more than three decades of steady work when Michigan Tool's parent company, ExCellO Corp., decided to move the Detroit operation to North Carolina. The men were not invited to relocate. Now they subsist on unemployment checks...
...getting involved in social action return with new information and contribute to the E4A information resources. The information clearinghouse-while it is far from being complete and perfectly organized-does seem to fill a need that students are increasingly feeling, that of help-ing to find ways to subsist while they are engaged in social action. While unable to keep running tabs on specific job openings, E4A does have a fairly extensive file on organizations where there are often volunteer or paying job possibilities. The responsibility for making contacts belongs to the student. Often meeting and talking with people...
...distressed to read of the efforts of the Foundation to Improve Television to limit the content, through Federal court action, of programs seen on television before 10 p. m. Like all sincere efforts to protect others through censorship, the supporters of the Foundation would make all persons subsist on the fare of what is thought safe for those to be protected (they single out children; others single out the mentally ill or the potentially dangerous). Whether such protective efforts are directed toward violence. toward erotic materials, toward satiric portrayals of the church or the government or whatever, these efforts augur...
...Goldman thinks that one of the orchestra's strengths is its low budget. Although the Philharmonia runs on only $65,000 a year, he notes, "We don't attempt to provide 52-week-a-year employment, or 48 weeks with 4 weeks vacation." The orchestra can subsist on almost miniscule state and foundation grants because of its small operating costs...
...impression that they are mere pawns in a world controlled by conniving capitalists. Worst of all is Chile's endemic inflation, which ran 28% last year and is presently climbing at the rate of more than 2% per month. More than half of Chile's families subsist on less than $30 a month. The cities are pockmarked with ugly slums, and life in the countryside remains burdensome and poverty-stricken for the vast majority of peasants...