Word: subsistance
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...more reluctant to pat ourselves on the back for solving all of the world’s problems. The level of economic inequality that currently exists is without historical precedent, and it is certainly within reason that, if the condition of the three billion people that subsist on less than two dollars a day fails to improve, our cherished international free market system could prove untenable. Many times have our forbearers presumed they had seen history’s violent spasms come to an end. It would benefit us greatly not to repeat their mistake...
...doctors, lawyers and politicians, but there need to be more educators added to the list. Harvard has the resources to publicize and support more teaching programs and advisors, and it’s about time Harvard made training future teachers a priority. Teachers don’t need to subsist on chalk dust or notebook paper—there’s a lot more to the profession than that—and it’s up to Harvard to get the message...
...candidates' positions on Israel or the future of the peace process. Sharaf, 41, has worked only six months since the beginning of the intifadeh in September 2000. He lives with his wife and eight children in a shack on Block 4 of the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza. They subsist on $7 a day scrounged from relatives. Desperate though it sounds, the family's predicament is hardly rare in Gaza's slums--and it is why Sharaf plans to vote for Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the leading candidate to succeed Yasser Arafat as President...
Children's theaters also have to face the problem of getting past the gatekeepers--parents, teachers, school administrators--to reach their primary audience. Along with weekend shows aimed at family audiences, these theaters subsist on weekday performances for school groups. But getting schools to commit to a field trip to the theater--instead of, say, a day of preparing for standardized tests--is becoming tougher in the age of No Child Left Behind. Then there are the morals monitors, who sometimes balk at more adventuresome children's material. When the Dallas Children's Theater three years ago staged Laurie Brooks...
...refusal to aid the new Haitian republic: "Are these men not merely to be abandoned to their own efforts but to be deprived of those necessary supplies which for a series of years, they have been accustomed to receive from the United States, and without which they cannot subsist...