Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sole training session for the guides, Kyriazis stressed the importance of "contact upkeep." Kyriazis passed out a one-page information sheet, which instructed SHS members to "contact your freshman almost immediately for a group lunch/dinner at your House" and "procure telephone numbers." It continued: "Contact again for individual follow-up meetings (their emphasis). The document yielded only one substantive piece of counsel. "Always be informal in tone and approach...
When he was President, the idyllic 26-acre retreat on the Pacific bustled as the Western White House. After he fell from power, it provided an elegant refuge. But Richard Nixon is moving out of his San Clemente estate. Inflation has pushed the upkeep of the twelve-room, Spanish-style villa beyond his pocketbook, and last week he sold it to a group of Orange County businessmen for an undisclosed...
...enrollments may one day increase and the buildings will be needed for students again and could not be duplicated or brought back at anything like present prices. Because most of the teaching staffs will simply be transferred elsewhere in the district, Evanston will save only about $150,000 in upkeep and payroll for each school closed...
Preserving libraries, museums, and laboratories. The fund drive will incorporate the Fogg Museum's "mini-drive" currently underway, and will provide money for library upkeep. It also seems the Peabody Museum is slated to receive some money from the drive, after the recent controversy over the sale of a collection of paintings to pay for a conservation system for the museum's collections. The total funding for libraries and museums from the drive will amount to about $33 million...
...emotional wounds. A court awarded her $12,000 in damages, but Polumbo did not pay. So Summers' attorney invoked a rarely used 1842 Connecticut statute that allows the indefinite imprisonment of a wrongdoer who has not paid his damages, as long as the creditor pays the prisoner's upkeep. For twelve days Summers kept her attacker locked in the Hartford jail, a revenge that cost...