Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make matters worse, inflation is galloping along at 20% or more annually, eating away at every worker's livelihood. Says an official in Gansu, a northwest province: "Even cadres like me are beginning to feel the pain, and I earn at least three times as much as an ordinary worker...
...opera singers, teachers and rock and roll musicians, a clear voice is not just a means of communication, it's their livelihood. So when their vocal cords are attacked by enemies ranging from the common cold to cancer, many don't waste a minute and go straight to Dr. Stephen M. Zeitels, assistant processor of otology and laryngology at the Medical School...
...trying to avoid trouble with their constituents and the Romans. "There was surely an admixture of insincerity, self-protective cunning, honest religious devotion, conscientious self-searching, and fanaticism," Brown concludes. Among the less-than-noble motives: Jesus had uttered prophecies against the Temple, which by one estimate provided the livelihood of 20% of Jerusalem's population...
...argues that the arrangement would affect the livelihood of many Japanese and South Korean rice farmers, threaten textile workers in Europe and the U.S., and create problems for factory workers at inefficient plants worldwide. Such losses should, in theory, be offset by new employment in export-related industries, where wages are usually higher than average -- 17% higher in the U.S, for example. An accord should also lower prices for consumers, who ultimately pay the hidden costs of protectionism. A U.S. family of four pays as much as $420 a year more for clothes than necessary, thanks to high U.S. textile...
...Reich gets his way, the economic livelihood of thousands of people across the country will be put into grave danger. Study after study has proven that jobs are lost when the government coerces businesses to pay a certain wage regardless of the worker's contribution...