Word: gymnasium
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Kaus was first exposed to government-sponsored employment when a team of laborers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA)--the federal commission created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, a former Crimson president, to combat Depression-era unemployment--built a gymnasium at Beverly Hills High. After college, Kaus remembers reading articles endorsing a revival of the WPA during the economic slump in the early 1980s...
...proprietor of DoMeLive.com and the Internet Video Group, its parent company. One of the bigger cybersex sellers, IVG employs three dozen women to, er, interact with men online. They work out of a 22,000-sq.-ft. "cyberbroadcast" facility in Pompano Beach, Fla., with all the facilities, including a gymnasium for its workers. The place cost $1.6 million. No problem, says Hirsch; his business was profitable three months after it opened its electronic doors. You do the math: IVG serves up roughly 8,000 peep-show minutes a day at $5.95 a minute, a weekly take of roughly...
...Admissions Office has been seeking a more permanent home--currently examining a possible home in Hemenway Gymnasium across the Cambridge Common--ever since Radcliffe announced it would not assent to a long-term lease with...
...level of interest, the wrestling team has had more than 300 spectators, with standing room only in the MAC, for some of its home meets. Women's rugby counts 50 members on its team roster alone, and home fixtures for squash attract enough people to fill up Hemenway gymnasium. These numbers would seem to justify at least a mention on the last page. Also, as varsity sailor Dan Parkes '98 points out, "It's difficult to be interested in something you don't know exists. If The Crimson gave us more publicity, I'm sure more people would...
...been blood loss," reported the first caller, breathless. "People with blood loss." Michael Barnes, 12, was looking elsewhere for help. There was no way to retreat into the school buildings; the doors had automatically locked as the finale of the fire drill. So, crawling to the shelter of the gymnasium, Barnes chanted Psalm 23 to himself: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...