Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courses in the area may be offered next year, but James M. Duesenberry, chairman of the department, said this week that all positions had been filled for next year and that there was "zero chance" of hiring people to fill the two proposed slots...
...retention of MacEwan is at best a superficial gesture which fails to insure the continuity of teaching and research which the field demands. The department should move quickly to hire new assistant professors to replace those who have left and to search out the most qualified Marxian economists to fill tenured positions at Harvard...
...problem is the inability to transform this commitment (in sport, personal exchange, and artistic expression) into the social and academic activities that fill the greater portion of each day, and to a commitment to future careers. Currently the ability to make a leap of faith, a commitment to appealing traditional values and forms is lacking. There is a similar absence of faith in the existence of not merely interesting and profitable, but worthwhile intellectual inquiry of significance to the development of culture...
...they gear up their re-election campaigns, Republicans in Congress are increasingly nervous. So far this year, four special elections have been held to fill House vacancies in normally G.O.P. districts, and in all of them Watergate was an inescapable and damaging issue for the party. Largely because of Watergate, Republicans lost congressional races in Pennsylvania and Michigan in February. Last week they won an election in Southern California-but only narrowly and in part because their candidate dissociated himself from Richard Nixon. On the same day, the party lost a psychologically important congressional race in staunchly Republican Cincinnati. Warns...
...plan to increase spending on new factories and machinery by 34.4%, to $2.5 billion. Demand for steel far outstripped supply last year. Now the biggest steel users, the automakers, are cutting back orders sharply, but the nation's mills still cannot melt and roll steel fast enough to fill the needs of other customers. So, steelmen expect to boost 1974 capital spending by 30%, to $1.8 billion...