Word: subsistence
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...many subsidized meals as possible before you’re forced to subsist entirely on Ramen and breakfast cereal...
...bigger say in choosing their dean. By pronouncing for a second time an enduring lack of confidence in Summers, some Faculty members hope to strip the president of powers that his office has always enjoyed in selecting an FAS dean. But “confidence” does not subsist in a grasp for power, and instead of using the no-confidence vote as a ruse, they should make plain their unorthodox case to exclude Summers from a role the president has always enjoyed. Should they succeed, the Faculty will have severely crippled the likelihood of finding a dean...
...envision a mascot with a vigorous and animated personality rallying fans and contributing to students’ common attachment to the school and its teams. Some will argue that we have come this far without the assistance of an acclaimed mascot and that we can continue to subsist happily in this way. In their view, our lack of tradition is a tradition in itself. But such an inert approach to university life would render our school incapable of progress and sentence future generations of Harvard students to stale experiences as members of the College. If we want to improve...
...tinderbox that few foreigners see and no one in France wants to talk about. The working-class suburbs of Paris are dominated by sterile high-rise public housing, where Arab immigrants from North Africa were shunted when they started arriving in the postcolonial years. Now their children and grandchildren subsist in squalor alongside fresh waves of African and South Asian immigrants and their French-born children. Families struggle to hang on to their dignity, while drug dealers and petty criminals exploit the only business opportunities to be found in those barren towns. Unemployment in some neighborhoods surpasses 40%, and hope...
Joubert and Rick (who declined to provide his last name) say they subsist day-to-day on a diet of free dinners from local churches and charities. They say they earn enough from their federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) check to afford coffee and tea—and an occasional danish—in the mornings. For lunch, Rick sometimes cashes in cans and bottles to buy a whole chicken from the DeMoulas Market Basket in Somerville...