Word: livelihood
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...that falsely credited him with having won a Bronze Star and bent facts to make Spahn larger than life. The test, ruled New York's highest court in 1967, was whether the book was knowingly or recklessly "infected with material and substantial falsification." As Taylor puts it: "My livelihood depends on-and don't laugh-my acting, the way I look, the way I sound. If somebody else fictionalizes my life, that is taking away from...
...were sent on the grounds that the parents were nonresidents of North Carolina paying no state income tax and employed at Camp Lejeune, one of the largest Marine bases in the U.S. Though nearly four of every five residents of the county depend on the Marine Corps for their livelihood, Impact Aid funds there decreased 77% in five years from $1.2 million in 1976 to $267,000 in 1981. Says Onslow County Superintendent of Schools Everett Waters: "A lot of people think this money is gravy, icing on the cake. In reality it is not, because we suffered...
...selling at a meager $3.65 per bu., down from $4.05 a year ago and from over $5 in 1973. In Oklahoma, where wheat is selling at $3.20 per bu., farmers invest nearly $6 to harvest each bushel. These are the mathematics of desperation. "The farmer's got his livelihood tied up in a crop he can't sell," said Mike Kubicek, executive director of the state's wheat commission. "He can't produce it for $6, sell it for $3 and say he's had a wonderful crop. He's going to have...
...After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." So begins an early (1643) manifesto of Harvard's aims; in those days, it was a rare graduate indeed who did not take to the pulpit once his sheepskin...
Soon after, copies of Greenfield's and Bradlee's notes leaked to Washington p.r. agencies. Threatened with a loss of mystique and livelihood, the firms bombarded the Post with protests. Privately, some claimed that since the capital became a one-newspaper town with the death of the Washington Star last August, the Post has grown increasingly arrogant-and, in this case, impractical. One senior p.r. man pointed out that the Post, in its coverage of politicians and Government agencies, routinely deals with press officers and administrative aides. "Everyone in this business has to deal with intermediaries," he said...