Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guerrilla groups have grabbed headlines by pouring sand in the fuel tanks of logging machinery and destroying oil-exploration gear. But it is law- abiding citizens, stung by a threat to their livelihood, their recreation or their family's health, who are giving the nation's environmental movement its daily, stubborn edge. In Kansas two years ago, a housewife who lived near Wichita's Vulcan Chemical plant and whose family had been beset with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken...
Loggers argue that court injunctions have already deprived them of much of their prime lumber -- and their livelihood. Protecting the owl, they warn, would silence the mills once and for all, and drive at least 9,000 jobs into extinction. Environmentalists believe that may be a price worth paying for preservation -- not just of the 14-in. owl but also of the 300-ft.-high Douglas firs, the western hemlock and the Sitka spruce that predate Columbus' arrival...
...only in comparison with their unspeakable employers. Given the way they have been lied to and cheated by the owners in the past, the players would argue, why should they not grab all the gusto they can now? No reason, really, except the danger that they will besmirch their livelihood in order to enrich...