Word: upkeep
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...find kids who we will get along with in the workplace. When you are working 100-plus hours a week with someone, you need it to be someone who you can relate to. Every office has a culture to a certain extent, and you have to work to upkeep that culture at least on a basic level...
...month and waive spousal support. Lisa says Kira's current stipend does not adequately allow the child to maintain a "station of life ...befitting the daughter of Kirk Kerkorian." That goes for her pet rabbit too; Lisa is also asking for $436 a month for her bunny's upkeep...
...federal government currently pays for the Smithsonian Observatory’s permanent infrastructure—salaries, building upkeep and equipment maintenance. The observatory then competes for outside grants to finance specific projects. But if the OMB proposal were adopted, the observatory could lose the funding to keep its scientists and equipment—an onerous and undesirable situation for an institution whose first priority should be innovative research, not cutthroat bureaucracy...
...thing, to begin to feel responsibility for our community—by cleaning our own bathrooms, scrubbing down our own tables, even cooking our own brunches—is something quite different. How would our habits change if groups of students, on a rotating basis, were responsible for the upkeep of the dining hall? Or if we honored the workers by giving them a day off, figuring out for ourselves where the garbage disappears to, or how to quick-freeze Tuesday’s clam chowder...
...because I think we need a fair system of rent control that doesn’t pit landlords against tenants,” Iskovitz says. “We need rents that are low enough to be affordable to tenants but high enough that landlords can afford to do upkeep...