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  • s  financially independent
    now that my children are self-supporting

  • Space that was earning nothing is now a self-supporting business.
  • The main other thing is they want confirmation that you're self-supporting, that you're not joining the Masons to mooch off the lodge.
  • The group works in an area for three years, helping local farmers form their own self-supporting organization and seed bank.
News & Articles

  • Gone postal
    Stephen King would have a hard time coming up with a more horrifying plot for the U.S. Postal Service. Established in the Constitution, the U.S. system of post offices was converted in 1971 into an independent, self-supporting agency that’s supposed to operate as a commercial entity. But thanks to Congress, the Postal Service has become a zombie agency. read more
    June 10, 2013 - The Times Record
  • Gallaher Mansion to throw open its doors for first time
    An historic mansion in Cranbury Park will be open for public tours for the first time Saturday as city officials prepare to implement a master plan designed to both repair the mansion and make it self-supporting.
    June 5, 2013 - The Norwalk Citizen
Quotes

  • Frank Broyles in San Diego Union Tribune
    For 36 years we had a profit and we didn't take student fees,Broyles said proudly. "I said we were going to be self-supporting, and we were. Only five or six schools in the country are self-supporting. There's going to be a major crisis if...
  • Gordon Gee in USA Today
    My fellow Koreans, a boy from the countryside who could not even eat regular meals, went from being a street vendor, a self-supporting student and a salary man to becoming the chairman of a prominent conglomerate, a member of the National Assembly... Lee Myung-bak http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Myung-bak&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGsecYW-q4rENpXG-buaP8mrZfDaQ Yonhap News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2008/02/25/99/0301000000AEN20080225002300320F.HTML&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEdX2yGQgzxBVjiMrJxhY_jcwcaVA Feb 24, 2008 87923 117307 self-supporting There's no similar urgency for change for the Ohio State athletic department, which, Gee says, is one of fewer than a half-dozen that are absolutely self-supporting."

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