Word: belt
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...Walsh, who works on the second floor in the Sports News Office, says she thinks one of the reasons people stay with the department so long is a feeling that jobs there are secure. Although the budget is tight, she says, austerity has meant belt-tightening rather than layoffs. True, the building itself is old, and the heating system can make working there pretty uncomfortable--one side of the building is overheated while the other side is freezing. But Walsh says she has found the general friendliness at 60 Boylston more than makes up for a few physical inconveniences...
...indeed neither was particularly concerned about finances in the process of deciding what to do with their time away. For Ann-Marie Moeller '77, simple economics was the primary factor. A pre-med, Moeller felt she wanted to have the experience of working in a lab under her belt, both for her own satisfaction and because medical schools are said to view such activities with favor. But lab jobs rarely pay and she simply could not afford to spend a summer doing volunteer work...
Around the corner from the subway stop at Dudley Station, at the District 2 city police headquarters, cops and secretaries lounged around, jingling the keys on their belt loops and shooting the bull. After joining state and federal police in what amounted to a war-time-like occupation of the troubled schools and streets last fall, they now have orders to keep a low profile, to "keep the lid on," from Robert J. DiGrazia, Boston's respected, refrom-minded and very high profile police commissioner...
Fast Lip. Steiger, 45, is a New York-born Jew who headed west 28 years ago and worked successively as rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing-walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and-since 1967-U.S. Congressman. He frequently sports lizardskin cowboy boots, silver belt buckles and pearl-buttoned shirts. Endowed with the brashest and fastest lip in Arizona politics, he once angered fellow Congressmen by observing that many of them were usually too drunk to be trusted pushing a wheelbarrow. More recently, he made headlines by shooting two burros that he claimed attacked him on a neighbor's ranch near Prescott...
Ford's weaknesses, however, are balanced by some farm-belt strengths. Butz still enjoys great popularity among some farmers; so too does Kansan Robert Dole. The President has also won points with farmers by urging a large increase in estate-tax exemptions to benefit owners of family farms. Further, Carter lost some standing among farmers two weeks ago for doing a soft-shoe shuffle on embargoes, at first ruling them out, then saying that he would permit them in the event of a catastrophic crop failure...