Word: spartan
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...entered the glass monolith at 1818 H Street NW on the first day of my job, I realized that “the Bank” was not going to be the spartan catharsis I had anticipated. This was something I should have realized when I was arbitrarily told a month before my job started that my salary was being boosted from $8 per hour to $11.15 per hour...
...guess I expected the bank to be spartan because it’s a public institution. Financed by member countries and also by internal sources of revenue, I thought an establishment like the Bank was obligated to give every available cent to starving AIDS orphans in Africa faced with hardships I could not even conceive. But, as I’ve realized in my few weeks on the job, the Bank must be a place of luxury and embody the antithesis of poverty...
Joshua P. Rogers ’07, an economics concentrator in Lowell House, is a news editor of The Harvard Crimson. He is already saddened by the prospect of returning to Harvard food and the truly spartan Crimson newsroom...
That approach included booking his first flight on the airline, an orderly if spartan pre-Thanksgiving round trip between People's headquarters at Newark International Airport and Jacksonville. "Playing a typical customer, I even phoned to make my own reservation, which has been a notoriously difficult part of getting on People Express," says Alexander. "Wonder of wonders, thanks to their new reservation system, I got through on my first...
...side of the room, his windows overlook an arena-size lobby where thousands of passengers wait, eat, sleep and often grumble. Windows on the opposite wall face the runways, where People's jets streak skyward toward Los Angeles, London and 47 other destinations. Burr's office is bus-station Spartan, like his airline. In the place where a conventional executive's couch would sit, he has a row of three first-class seats from...