Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buildings and Grounds employees not regularly engaged in grounds upkeep are also working at snow removal. Vacha said...
...replacement of the title "co-master" by "associate master," a post which would bring a small stipend. Serving as a testimonial to the weakness of the recommendations is this closing note about the dangers of House mis-management: "Even in so small a matter as the tuning and upkeep of pianos, the Houses have functioned as autonomous units, each Master hiring his own tuner. As of 1976-77, however, all pianos will be taken care of by one [italics theirs] tuner. This small innovation in procedures ought to serve as a model of coordination for maintenance in the Houses...
...turning his office into a clearing house, Fox has already appointed an assistant dean, Ann B. Spence, to oversee budgets and to act as a liaison between separate College areas. At present, Fox has specific control over money allocated for anything concerning Houses and dormitories except their physical upkeep, and his jurisdiction may eventually be expanded to include final approval of the budgets of other non-academic undergraduate programs. Fox denies that such a move would be a centralization of authority; rather, he considers it essential to increasing the awareness of College administrators that their work must be conducted within...
...shareowners, a time-sharing vacation can offer the advantages of a vacation home without the large initial investment or steady upkeep. At the Playboy resort, for example, Larry Leven, a $35,000-a-year Chicago insurance executive, and his family recently spent a week in a condominium that normally costs $135 a day. As owners of a 40-year, $7,050 share at the resort, they only paid an $18 per diem charge...
...sons work for their tuition and upkeep-a time-honored American custom that does wonders to ward off the temptations of hippieism, yippieism and other forms of juvenile parasitism. Mr. Bell should encourage his sons to try it some time. Perhaps if he did, he might not need to switch from one public trough to another...