Word: basement
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...effort to relieve congestion at undergraduate computer terminals and allow for expanded computer use by undergraduates, Science Center officials have recently acquired a new $250,000 timesharing computer and soon plan to open a new terminal room in the Center's basement...
Penn and Columbia have been bad for so long that nobody even takes them seriously; instead, observers group them together when they talk about the Ivy basement, laughing derisively at the Quakers and Lions. Well, you won't get any promises here, but this may be the year for one or both of those squads to climb out of the bottom...
Whatever it is, Helms would rather do it himself. He fries his own breakfasts (eggs, bacon and biscuits), types his own letters in a spare?truly spare?basement room in Raleigh, and refuses to be chauffeured. He drives his own anonymous 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, in which he listens exclusively to what he agrees is "Muzak music...
During August, General Motors is trying to lure buyers into the showrooms with new-car loans at the bargain-basement rate of 13.8%. That would cut the total cost of an average $7,600, 45-month car loan by about $550 and reduce monthly payments by $12. The prevailing bank rate for an auto loan is now about 16%. The bank's figure traditionally has averaged a percentage point or so below that of the auto company...
...controllers did take an oath; was that not a binding deed? Many Americans found themselves distantly disturbed that what was once a matter of some human solemnity should be brushed aside as if it were merely a technical detail. The social edifice shuddered slightly; down in the basement, a dusty little taboo fell off a shelf and shattered...