Word: upkeep
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...want JV baseball to receive as much attention as varsity, but I think there’s a difference between attention and disregard,” Coe-Odess said. The athletic department also announced plans to close the Malkin Athletic Center this summer, curtail facility projects and upkeep, increase energy conservation initiatives, and reduce team travel budgets in an effort to cut costs. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
Three thousand dollars to fix the pipes beneath a tennis court; $462 for the upkeep of a swimming pool; $942 to fit a chandelier. The extravagance of many of the expense claims filed by British MPs in recent years, deliciously catalogued this past week by the country's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which obtained leaked details, have British voters fuming. In a poll taken by the Times of London, more than four fifths of Britons thought all the country's legislators were as bad as each other for milking their allowance system, if not illegally, then far beyond its spirit...
...addition, the individual would only be employed for 10 months of the year. But because of the staff assistant’s role in post-undergraduate file upkeep, this schedule “would not be helpful” to students, Eck said, adding that pre-med application work occurs during the summer...
...Foreigners may thrill at the sight of an elephant plodding past high-rises, but a smoggy metropolis is not a natural habitat for creatures unused to cars or open manholes.) Hotel guests who want to sponsor an elephant can volunteer about $1,000 a month for the animal's upkeep. The donation covers not only vet bills but also the salary of the beast's mahout, or elephant handler. And, of course, a never-ending supply of bananas. (See pictures of Singapore...
...problem comes when habitually snail-paced pedestrians find themselves aloft fast-moving bicycles, especially ones for whose upkeep they don't feel responsible. Recently released figures indicate that around 11,600 of the bicycles have been trashed, slashed, battered, brutalized and even drowned in the Seine since the program began; 7,800 others have been stolen. Just as bad, some cyclists have even begun broadcasting Internet videos of themselves engaged in "Vélib free rides" or "extreme Vélib'," in which wannabe urban daredevils put the solid but graceless bikes through punishing stunts usually reserved...