Word: rent
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According to Radcliffe Vice President for Finance and Administration Nancy Dunn, Harvard occupies and manages the buildings in the Radcliffe Quad and assumes all expenses. Radcliffe collects no rent...
Tension between the two institutions emerged again earlier this year when Radcliffe requested rent for the use of Byerly Hall, which currently houses the Undergraduate Admissions Office and the offices of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the past, FAS has used the space free of charge...
...gang simply because he had supposedly made suggestive remarks to a white woman. Even highly educated blacks were routinely denied the right to vote or serve on juries. They could not eat at lunch counters, register in motels or use whites-only rest rooms; they could not buy or rent a home wherever they chose. In some rural enclaves in the South, they were even compelled to get off the sidewalk and stand in the street if a Caucasian walked...
...pettiness of the accusations speaks for itself. Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ads provoke particular ridicule, and while the idea is indeed amusing, they pay his rent. The scorn reminds me of how the Russian upper crust once castigated Peter the Great for being unafraid to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty. Amazingly, in our huge, multinational country, where the residents of St. Petersburg speak with a different accent from those of Moscow, Gorbachev's southern speech is held against...
...Meanwhile, animals are dropping like, well, flies at Disney's new zoo, and the American Kennel Club is rethinking its position that while Doberman pinschers are kid-friendly, Chihuahuas should be kept away from both junior AND Taco Bell. What's a card-carrying member of PETA to do? Rent 'Pet Sematary', of course (but don't let anyone see you do it), a God-Awful picture that will nevertheless leave you nostalgic for the time when Stephen King could get a $2 million movie deal for his grocery list. Think of it as desert, and remember, to paraphrase...