Word: cushiest
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Maybe misery just loves company. But when I realized on Housing Day that I was Quadded, I began to wonder: Why don’t all sophomores get Quadded? If the rumors are true, and Quad housing really has the cushiest single rooms, the nicest community, and the best dining halls, then why not? Moving sophomores to the quad would have benefits both for advising and class bonding—and would eliminate the shameful stigma of living a short bus away...
Resident tutors have one of the cushiest jobs on campus, and it is only fair that they are required to faithfully fulfill their duties. Getting free housing and food in the city of Cambridge is an advantage which many covet—hence the huge number of applicants to the program. After passing rigorous screening and interviews, the tutors are then supposed to integrate themselves into the House community. They work on an honor system; the University trusts that the tutors will voluntarily fulfill their duties without being monitored, and if there is a breach of that trust, the school...
...Since they were first elected in June, 1999, the three M.E.P.s have been making waves in the still pond of the Brussels bureaucracy, striking at some of the E.U's cushiest perks and least effective talking shops. Dutch Socialist Van Hulten successfully fought for Friday meetings of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to be scrapped because no one bothered to turn up for votes, a move that has saved taxpayers millions of euros; Clegg has campaigned for the Parliament's over-generous system of pay and allowances to be scaled back; and Van der Laan has called for feckless institutions...