Word: basement
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...another--and tax credits for hiring new employees. They supply funds to train workers or pay part of their wages while they are in training, and provide scientific and engineering assistance to solve workplace technical problems. They repave existing roads and build new ones. They lend money at bargain-basement interest rates to erect plants or buy equipment. They excuse corporations from paying sales and property taxes and relieve them from taxes on investment income...
...besides projecting an image of "maternal chic," would one opt to spend hours of toil on a pair of socks when one could support the local sweatshop by picking up a pair at Filene's Basement? Like foxhunts, senior theses and binge drinking, the point is the process, not the end result. "Nothing says I love you like a pair of well-knit socks," claims Lowell House sophomore Michael C. Large...
...people who are most directly responsible for Krueger's death--the former officers of the now-defunct Phi Gamma Delta chapter. These officers should be held accountable for creating an environment in which Krueger was not only hazed but was subsequently carried by fraternity members to the fraternity's basement and left alone in a medically precarious condition while the fraternity partied...
...other election news. Vice President SamuelC. Cohen '00 announced that nomination petitionsfor this year's presidential and vice presidentialelections are now available on the door of thecouncil office in Holworthy basement...
...only $1 an hour. "Sometimes we had nothing for ourselves. I made less than $100 a week." She and her husband made so little money they couldn't afford to live together. He continued to sleep on the floor of the restaurant that employed him. She slept in a basement owned by relatives. Her husband would ask angrily, "Why don't you work harder?" "But," says Yu, "I couldn't work any harder...