"The conservative movement's mission has become providing comfortable professional livelihoods to literally hundreds of people," David Frum told me recently.
"It agrees rules for selection of clubs for a league, which have an enormous financial and reputational impact on those clubs and the professional livelihoods they support, but then does not follow them," he added.
The alliance said it rejected the idea of the debate between piracy as a "David and Goliath battle" between individuals and multinationals, and such a characterisation ignored the fact that many creative professionals' livelihoods were at stake.
But the truth is that hardly anyone – apart from the professionals, whose livelihoods depend on it – can either be bothered to wade through the reams of scientific papers concerned with the alternative treatment regimens, or understand the different methodologies arrived at to assess competing claims.
Dangerous crash diets are nothing new for high-level professionals whose livelihood depends on their body (consider model Beverly Johnson, who subsisted on "a bowl of brown rice and an egg a week" during her heyday), and UFC champion Chris Weidman explained to HuffPost Live last week the scary effect of such behavior. .
Some of my results paint quite a grim picture of academic careers, baring the profound anxieties that many postdocs have about their professional futures and livelihoods.
What would you do if your professional life and livelihood depended on students' test scores, and the little demons wouldn't come to school regularly, do their homework or even pay attention in class?
Professional biologists earn their livelihoods by asking questions, designing and conducting experiments, and interpreting data, the sum of which could be called "the process of science".
Perhaps what they yearn for most is not to re-enact thesis work over the course of their careers but to keep the Senegalese pharmacist's versatility open, to be able to choose between and even combine the values and work of business, public service, research and care as a broad basis for their livelihoods and professional identities.
He said: "The unlawful actions of the trust damaged my health, my professional reputation and my livelihood and its effects on my personal and private life have been devastating".
Riding on that are the livelihoods of 47 professional players, from 15 nations, hired by Newcastle alone.
