Until the late 1970s, contract labour paid only enough to support a single person at subsistence level.
With the investigation creeping along as the state looks into whether other doctors might have abused prescriptions for Mr. Jackson, Dr. Murray now finds himself at a low point in the tumultuous journey that began when he was a born to a poor single mother on a subsistence farm in Grenada.
The average Roman senator was worth "only" about 5m, while the majority of the population lived on something closer to subsistence level; a single sestertius could buy two loaves of bread.
In the highlands, divided into a number of mutually contrasting environments no one of which could have provided sufficient resources for the subsistence of a single settlement, villages were presumably linked to each other symbiotically.
Thus, the Dutch, and many subsequent social scientists, believed they belonged to a single population following different modes of subsistence: hunting, foraging, beachcombing, and herding.
As such, individuals in a single household can be oriented towards both subsistence and market production simultaneously.
A nation of muddy subsistence farmers was transformed, in a single generation, into the world's largest producer of ships and memory chips, its fifth-largest car maker and its 11th-largest economy.
Vast herds once grazed here, providing subsistence for the Northern Plains Indians; now only a single real herd is usually visible from the train.
Residents were primarily of Luo ethnicity, engaged in subsistence farming, and lived in compounds consisting of a single main house surrounded by one to three additional households.
The United Nations, the World Bank and charities like Oxfam have said their elimination or reduction would provide the single biggest possible benefit for the economies of poor countries with many subsistence farmers.
