Word: basic
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...Apparently the administration believes college students at one of the most prestigious institutions of learning in the country cannot be trusted to safely operate kitchen appliances. More than the loss of our warm snacks, I was disappointed by the University's lack of faith in their students' level of basic common sense...
...health insurance provision of the ordinance is likely to be upheld in court, supporters of equality ought to lobby for a change in the antiquated state law. There is no justification for denying two people in a committed, long-term relationship the same benefits--particularly benefits as basic and vital as health insurance--that married couples enjoy. To give benefits to members of one type of relationship and not another makes a discriminatory value judgment about the worth of a particular type of companionship. The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill in November to extend such benefits to domestic partners...
...home the money needed to pay the $1,100 one-bedroom rents that prevail in the few low-income neighborhoods left in Boston and Cambridge, or commute in from far-away postindustrial towns like Lowell and Worcester where a 65-hour work week is sufficient to provide life's basic necessities. Either option leaves precious little time for anything but work. Families, creative interests and personal health suffer the consequences...
...years since the depository was founded, this basic scheme has undergone some revision. But because the facility is one of the first of its kind, Lane has had to play it by ear and employ some good old Yankee ingenuity...
...Syrian interlocutors, but these statements, coupled with Syrian-backed violence in Lebanon, harden the Israeli electorate against a peace treaty with Syria and make it increasingly difficult for Barak to sell a future peace to his own people. Syria's reckless statements that offend the Israeli electorate's most basic sensibilities reduce Assad's chances of regaining the Golan Heights...