Word: livelihood
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...district includes three distinct sections: the traditionally Democratic blue-collar New Bedford area, which still depends on commercial fishing for much of its livelihood; the more conservative and more elderly constituency on Cape Cod; and the affluent liberal suburbs to the southeast of Boston...
Formidable challenges will continue to awai: Shattuck in his new role. In recent years, Harvard has found itself part of a growing opposition to many government policies on higher education, while cutbacks in federally funded financial aid for students and research threaten universities livelihood and autonomy...
...points out, much of Central America's future depends on the policies it adopts U.S. assistance is vital in providing the region with a head start. Washington should continue its support for agrarian reform which will lessen the power of local oligarchies and offer the peasant some hope of livelihood. In addition, the U.S. should be generous in supplying technical and monetary aid in helping the Central American nations diversity their agricultural sector so as to make countries more self-sufficient for food and less dependent on one crop economies...
...remain are chilling. Already there have been reports from isolated villages of families having to fend off packs of wolves descending on their dead animals. With 30,000 of the area's livestock killed, even the farmers who weather the crisis may find themselves stripped of their livelihood. Survivors in Muratbagi last week spent every day laying the bodies of loved ones to rest and every night shivering in the cold...
...impressive to make a point of principle at the expensive of someone clue's livelihood, and that is what is happening here. If the act passes, Draper would simply move to Somerville and carry on: it is, at best, a gesture, and it will have a lot of people. That is why Cambridge residents think the has supporters have, this time, gone too far. So do I. Joel Keeman