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• n  personal independence

• He never stopped calling for a nation that would turn its back on technology to prosper through village self-sufficiency, but not even the Mahatma could hold back progress.
• In Living Off the Grid, author Dave Black eases the way toward self-sufficiency for modern families.
• Uniformly, Asians finished first in the wealth, intelligence and self-sufficiency categories, followed by Europeans and Middle Easterners, with Latinos finishing last.

• autonomy
• self-direction
• self-reliance

News & Articles

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• House of Hope The Jesus Center announces plans for a new transitional facility for women in Chico.
  The Jesus Center has announced plans for a facility to help women transition out of homeless shelters and into self-sufficiency. The House of Hope is...
  June 13, 2013 - Chico News & Review
• Summer office skills training program offered
  NEWTON — Project Self-Sufficiency will offer an 8-week training program for women, including lessons in computer skills, job search methods, and interview techniques, along with on-the-job training at a community work site on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., from July 9 to Aug. 29.
  June 12, 2013 - The Advertiser-News
• Iran launches rearmed 50-year-old destroyer on Gulf
  Since 1992, Iran has been pursuing a self-sufficiency military program, reportedly producing its own jet fighters, tanks, missiles and light submarines as well as torpedoes.
  June 11, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Wade Horn in Forbes
  I think more attention has to be paid to helping those families move up the income scale, increasing their independence of other government welfare programs,Horn said. "The true goal of welfare to work programs should be self-sufficiency."
• Peter Kenyon in Times Online
  We have consistently advocated the aim of self-sufficiency, which has always been supported by the owner,Kenyon said. "We are hopeful of being close to these targets in the timeframes we have set given the underlying strengths of the...
• Hoshyar Zebari in Gulf Daily News
  Our forces and capabilities haven't reached the level of self-sufficiency,Zebari said at a news conference with visiting French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.