"It is unnecessary and shortsighted to shut down a major part of the nation's energy lifeline while working to enhance offshore safety," Jack Gerard, the association's president, said in a statement.
For Hamm, an Iowan who runs a personal finance blog for debt-ridden "ordinary people" called The Simple Dollar, free wi-fi is a lifeline to his work and a mainstay of his penny-pinching lifestyle.
The programs are a lifeline for the working poor — without them many parents would have to give up their jobs and stay home to care for their children.
"I think it will be a lifeline for organisations working with people with disabilities, women and people from black and minority ethnic communities because it will mean that public authorities will have to look very carefully at the adverse impact on them of cuts," she says.
"This is my lifeline to continue my work," he said.
Retirees in Indiana see them as a route to lifelong learning; students in India see them as their only lifeline to college-level work.
Owners of connected campgrounds say that most people do not stay online long, using the connection mostly as an e-mail lifeline to home and work.
No one knows just how these massive courses will evolve, but their appeal to a broad audience is unquestioned: retirees in Indiana see them as a route to lifelong learning, students in India as their only lifeline to college-level work.
The individuals who proved her true and resilient salvation, who allowed her to settle quietly into the berth of herself and from there extend synaptic lifelines of love and work to the world outside, were not Homo sapiens at all, but a group of our larger, shaggier ape kin, the gorillas.
