• They are well acquainted with the gangs that roam the area, reeling off their names: the Americans, the Hard Livings, the Junky Funky Kids.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa

  • This was to be the pattern of his short life in and out of poorly paid jobs, squeezing out the meagrest of livings, spongeing off family and friends anything to keep body and soul together as he pursued the seemingly impossible task of living as a poet.

    ECONOMIST: Lives (7): American poets

  • Food website The Daily Meal asked dozens of respected chefs and restaurateurs nationwide to rate the food critics who make their livings rating them, reversing the norm.

    FORBES: Tables Turned - Top Chefs Review Pete Wells And Other Restaurant Critics

  • Sen Welfare is the combination of absolute livings standards and inequality, rising Sen Welfare means that inequality is falling as incomes rise.

    FORBES: Fukuyama's Latest Nonsense and Why Karl Marx Was Right

  • What are we doing around high-tech industries that can produce jobs and raise standards of livings for both the Russian people and the United States?

    WHITEHOUSE: Diplomatic Reception Room

  • The trend should continue well into the future on rising disposable income, higher standards of livings and a younger demographic where almost half the population is under 25 and eagerly looks forward to exploring the increasingly interconnected world.

    FORBES: Expedia's India Opportunity

  • In most states contact lenses can be sold only with proof of a valid prescription--either a written prescription or oral approval from an ophthalmologist or an optometrist, who make their livings largely from the stuff they sell, contact lenses among them.

    FORBES: An Eye For An Eye

  • Jewish merchants, including the founders of Levi Strauss, tended to earn their livings supplying miners rather than risking life and limb in the mines.

    FORBES: California And The Jews

  • Aspiring comics also earn decent livings from corporate gigs when not performing at the growing number of comedy clubs.

    WSJ: South Africa Gets Some Comic Relief

  • In the marketplace, even in politics, we recognize that competing interests in the long run produce a more fit economy and better livings standards, challenges in equitable distribution of benefits notwithstanding.

    FORBES: Entrepreneurship Is Not War

  • Corporate sponsors may be trying to burnish their companies' reputations (why else so free with shareholders' money?), but it's not as though today's patrons of the arts expect the florid lickspittlery once lavished on those who provided artists their livings.

    WSJ: A Protest Without Rhyme or Reason | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten

  • In both countries, but particularly in Ireland, there has been savage devaluation of an internal sort - wages and livings standards of workers have been slashed to a far greater extent than in the UK, which has improved the competitiveness of their businesses.

    BBC: It's trade or bust for Britain

  • It ranks with the original human exodus from Africa about 60, 000 years ago, which led to Homo sapiens becoming a global species, and the beginning of the industrial revolution, 250 years ago, when many people stopped being farmers and began to earn their livings in other ways.

    ECONOMIST: The earliest granaries

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