Word: livelihood
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...travel," says Jenn Berman, a Beverly Hills, Calif. psychotherapist who treats performers. "That makes it hard to stay connected and have intimate relationships." Successful comics, meanwhile, may have plenty of the wrong kind of relationships. "The more money you have, the more handlers you have, the more people whose livelihood depends on pleasing you," Berman says. "Everyone is invested in keeping you happy rather than making you face your demons...
...either get ready now," said Craig Fugate, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, "or wait until disaster strikes and not have any options. Failure to do that can cost you your home, your livelihood, and unfortunately your family...
...north of Aberdeen, Rosehearty is one in a cluster of small Scottish fishing communities on the edge of the North Sea. Battered by the dark waters that have caused untold losses of boats and men, the people here have long accepted a cruel bargain: the ocean gives fishermen their livelihood but it also owns a claim - redeemable at any time - on their lives. Forced to be stoic, they came to believe that no man could be blamed for the sea's wrath...
...task of a university to patrol cyberspace in search of wrongdoing. The music industry has been able to investigate (and litigate) piracy before, and it should not lean against campus administrators to take up the helm of prosecution on this count. While it is regrettable that piracy threatens the livelihood of musicians around the world, the RIAA has adopted the wrong response strategy to this phenomenon. Litigation may persist, but the problem of lost revenues will never be relieved by virtue of such an approach. The renewed focus by the RIAA on college administrators represents a desperate maneuver...
...other problems which the politicians do not want to address. The result is that in spite of cheating you, most auto drivers live in slums or resettlement colonies. Their children are forced into child labor. Thousands of auto drivers are forced to depend upon rented auto rickshaws for their livelihood in spite of having spent 30 years or more in the trade...