Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though we may be looking to find a livelihood and not a hobby, the essence of the event is the same. We need to make a decision about where to invest our energies, we're new to the area and we'd like to know our options. So why did it seem that all those glossy recruiting pamphlets contained fewer choices than did the tacky posters and ridiculous stunts of long ago? Why did it seem as if the same power suit, the same strong handshake, the same future sat behind each and every table...
...technology in question was developed by a cotton company, Delta and Pine Land, for which Monsanto is spending $1 billion. Some activists were concerned about a future where farmers are locked into the local seed store for their livelihood, while others feared that the suicide genes could cross-pollinate with other plants, creating widespread sterility. "Monsanto bowed to public pressure," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "This technology is still several years down the road, so there wasn't any immediate payoff, and it was costing them quite a bit in terms...
...Intelligent heads back in the day found waysto make this their livelihood," Rowe said. "That'swhat changed...
...life is to watch over and attend to his people. As an all purpose civil servant for a disparate community, including everything from the spiritual colonists of the Wisconsin woods to simple, hardworking farm families Jake struggles to care for and understand everyone. Added to his cares is the livelihood of his own small family, and it is from his passion to love and protect all these people that the insanity grows...
...Middleton moved back to his native Leadville, Colo., 18 months ago, eager to trade urban pressures for the serenity of this historic mining town of 3,421. But Leadville's telephone system is quaint too, and won't let his computer modem send the digital images that are his livelihood. This regularly forces Middleton to drive two hours to Denver to deliver electronic designs for brochures and ads. "I can't compete," he laments, again facing the prospect of leaving Leadville for the city. "The phone line is too small...