Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that Dean Rosovsky had not yet selected a search committee to fill the chair. The department the chair will fall under will depend on the nature of the person chosen, Bok said...
This article dissents from yesterday's editorial, "Ford's Court Choice," which said in part, "Ford should appoint a left-leaning" justice to fill Douglas's vacant seat...
...evoking the horrors of Big Government, or maybe it has just been more graphic. Instead of referring vaguely to pointy-headed pencil-pushers on the Potomac, the Birchers never miss the chance in their literature to say that endless waves of rules and regulations, paperwork, and forms to fill out are tentacles of central government reaching out to clasp Americans in warm, dark totalitarianism...
...Walker Bush, 51, comes freighted with a slightly odd set of qualifications to take over the supposedly apolitical Central Intelligence Agency-most notably, a rather active political ambition. A tall, athletic and charming former Congressman, Bush is thought to have been Gerald Ford's runner-up choice to fill the vice presidency last year. His name is now being mentioned again as a possible Ford running mate next year...
Because of Rumsfeld's policy of "interchangeability"-the practice of having deputies regularly fill in for their bosses-Cheney in the past year has spent almost as much time with the President at home and on the road as Rumsfeld has. Like Rumsfeld, Cheney will run Ford's White House staff and implement his decisions. But he is not expected to be a manipulator of policies and personalities as his old boss...