Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best of them providing nothing but a single room in a mud walled hut, the best perhaps with tin roofs. The others are in much worse shape. There is very little in the way of sanitary facilities, and there is no room whatsoever for these men to provide the livelihood the one way they know how, through raising the food which they would...
...talking to the refugees, the answer was found very simply. They'd been driven from their homes, and they'd most often been driven out by airplanes which came and strafed and bombed their villages, and they'd fled to the cities. They'd lost their means of livelihood. In a sense they'd almost lost their manlihood. Their indigation at the government of South Vietnam and at the Americans was very pointed and direct. They pointed the finger at us as having driven them from their land...
...Belt is now of questionable necessity. The Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike has taken much of the pressure of the Central Artery. Boston has not grown as fast, in terms of jobs or population, as had been expected when the Belt was designed. Moreover, balancing the lives and livelihood of this many people against the convenience of commuters, is a dubious proposition...
...lion dancers pranced through the streets of Taipei, and a delegation of 3,000 overseas Chinese presented gilt scrolls enumerating their achievements of the past year. Nationalist Vice President Chia-kan Yen proclaimed that Chiang's "achievements in the promotion of nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood have made him the No. 1 man in the world...
...sure way to turn stockbrokers into reticent men is to broach the sensitive subject of their profits. Securities dealers owe much of their livelihood to investor confidence built up by public disclosure of corporate earnings. Yet the overwhelming majority of them consider their own net incomes to be nobody else's business. This double standard is well entrenched, wholly legal and-at least from a broker's view point-eminently logical. After all, partly by resisting demands for more such data, Wall Street has so far fended off the Securities and Exchange Commission's four-year...