Word: lofting
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...While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance on games of Nerf basketball with a trio of dissolute Americans and an Argentine kleptomaniac. Scoured of romanticism, his story dwells on the conflict that comes with being a resident outsider: a fear of stepping into the unknown combined with the shame that comes from seeking...
Carman, a junior who majored in Spanish and minored in art history, lived in the loft over the garage where the fire broke out. A breezeway connected the garage to a two-family house, which was not damaged by the fire...
Medford’s building inspector said the building did not have a permit for the loft to be used as an apartment and there was only one entrance and exit to the dwelling, a violation of the city’s building code...
Medford Mayor Michael J. McGlynn told the Associated Press that the owner of the residence will be prosecuted if the loft was not a legal abode...
...their workers to sacrifice. Patrice Tanaka, 50, who runs her own New York City public-relations firm, began trimming costs last year by deferring tech upgrades and bonuses. She then snipped staff perks like free bagel breakfasts, ice cream, yoga--even the fresh flowers that once perfumed the loft offices. It wasn't enough. In a last-ditch effort to hold on to her staff of 40, she asked her partners to swallow a 20% pay cut and other workers to forgo 10%. "It's not a Utopia; we have our good and bad days," she says. But business...