Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your proctor will try to be "one of the guys/gals," but the other guys/gals don't fill out forms on you at the end of the year. Beware...
Some on the 1974 list have done exceptionally well, many have assumed increasingly important posts, and the lives of a few have illustrated the perils that beset those who would fill leadership roles in present-day America. "We are still anticipating our unfulfilled promise," says Bill Moyers, a member of the Class of 200 who remains one of the most perceptive journalists on public television. Roughly half of those on the original list are playing much the same leadership roles as they did five years ago. A quarter seem to be exerting greater impact. The rest have lost standing...
Most of the departments tried to make the deadline, but there were three notable exceptions: Blumenthal said he would not fill out the forms. Adams said that he was ripping up his. Califano left his forms for his successor, Pat Harris. Said he: "I'm perfectly happy to evaluate people, but not on the basis of what time they go to work...
Hanoi, in effect, is trying to fill one pocket by emptying another. The Pathet Lao troops are needed in northern Laos, where Chinese-supplied tribesmen are smuggling rifles to anti-Communist Meo guerrillas. According to Western and Thai intelligence, the insurgents last month killed 200 Pathet Lao troops assigned to guard a new highway...
...last year. Total purchases of pools, chemicals and equipment should reach a record of close to $3 billion. The market is helped by the new attention to fitness and the inflation in costs of faraway vacations, but the driving force is gasoline. Nobody has to wait in line to fill a pool with water-or pay $ 1 a gallon...