Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's freeze on wages, in effect, is a sacrifice demanded of each of them. After an initial burst of optimism over the President's speech, laboring Americans?including millions who do not belong to unions?were be ginning to realize that his plan placed limits on their livelihood such as have not been dreamed of for a generation...
...operate outside it by setting their own prices and wages almost with impunity. Thus in deciding to intervene last week on a massive scale against those structural problems, the President in many ways began the most basic reform of all: a change in the nation's very means of livelihood...
...errant Communists who backed Dubč's 1968 reforms, reducing membership to 1,200,000. Hoping to save their own skins, friends secretly denounced one another before the commission inquiring into activities under Dubč that are now considered questionable. Loss of party cards has meant loss of livelihood as well. Teachers have had to become taxi drivers; diplomats, hotel clerks; and intellectuals, gas-station attendants. Even the still popular Dubč is now a minor bureaucrat in the Slovak Ministry of Forests...
...major cities (85% of the population lives in the countryside) and apparently saw little that the Chinese did not want them to see. Correspondent Durdin wrote that "the places visited were for the most part showplaces." He also noted that "improved industrial output has given them a little better livelihood." The nation is stable and "back at work in a settled, regulated way," Durdin concluded...
...protect against a "rainy day" in the event of illness and to provide for their children's college education. These savings now look inadequate as the cost of medical care and college education climb out of reach, making people feel that they have lost control over their livelihood...