Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little cost, I would agree: the variety of nature is a good, a high aesthetic good. But it is no more than that. And sometimes aesthetic goods have to be sacrificed to the more fundamental ones. If the cost of preserving the spotted owl is the loss of livelihood for 30,000 logging families, I choose family over...
...business people who stake their livelihood on shifts in consumer behavior see thousands of small changes that they believe are adding up to something. At a Brookstone store in Boston, a man exchanges a gift, trading in a $99 executive fountain pen ("I'll never use it") for a car-care kit. Suddenly people want to buy toys that don't take batteries. Sales of dolls are up. Power dressing is out. One sign: shoulder pads, standard issue for the female corporate warrior, are finally disappearing from women's clothing. Even designers are getting into the act: Donna Karan...
...local people claim, just a show for the international media? No, argues Brazilian Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who sees the trial as a clear demonstration that his country will protect the rain forest, along with the rubber tappers (seringueiros) and Indians who depend upon the trees for their livelihood. "Chico Mendes did not die in vain," he says. "We must and will put a stop to ecological crimes...
Columnists walk a tightrope. To be either too bland or too savage usually erodes their following and, ultimately, their livelihood. One pundit who never errs on the side of niceness is Patrick Buchanan, a former aide to Presidents Nixon and Reagan. He earns a reported $500,000 a year from a column in 180 newspapers, lectures and daily TV exposure on CNN's Crossfire and the syndicated McLaughlin Group and Capital Gang. Blending unyielding right-wing views with incendiary rhetoric, he stirs deep passions. Last week Buchanan was teetering on the tightrope. His latest outbursts had even longtime allies accusing...
...Nearly half his take-home salary goes to rent the 12-ft. by 65-ft. trailer he, his wife and three children live in and the lot it sits on; $20 is set aside for the gas he needs to get to the factory. "His working is our livelihood, so that has to come first," says wife Sandy. Electricity runs about $40 a month. The Wellses had a phone for a while, but it cost more than $20 a month, so they got rid of it. Food stamps worth $200 a month help keep meat on the table...