Word: spirited
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...Administrative consolidations could offset such severe cuts to House life, which are worrisome and misguided and will cause major problems for both the House staff and students. This is not to say that the specific proposals above are entirely unjustifiable—simply that the community spirit and nurturing environment created by House life, should not be lost to budget cuts—especially if these cuts are meant to spare the bureaucratic central administration’s jobs and salaries...
...days everybody used to knock on the side of the ship and have a beer," Inch recalls. "That's long over." And, as with nearly every industry, the emergence of a handful of big firms like Con-Lash has to an extent curbed the ship chandler's freewheeling spirit...
...Jewish boxer Salamo Arouch, 86, fought his way to survival as a prisoner at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by winning fight after fight against other captives--keeping prison guards enthralled. He was the subject of the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe...
...pointed to the town hall meetings, a web portal detailing the planned cuts, and group discussions administrators have held with students as examples of the administration’s effort to solicit student opinion.“All of this seems to me to be very much in the spirit of the ‘open dialog’ the students say they are seeking,” he wrote. Smith also wrote that students are involved in the working groups that have been established to address the looming deficit of $220 million—only $77 million of which...
...recent Town Hall meeting hosted by the Undergraduate Council, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith responded noncommittally to a student’s suggestion that administrators take salary cuts in the spirit of shouldering the burden of deep cutbacks across the University. The Faculty will need to close a $220 million deficit over the next two years, Smith said, but the range of budget cuts announced last week only account for $77 million in savings...