Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city needed loans because of a practice, begun by Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. in May 1965 of borrowing short-term notes, payable within one year, to fill budget deficits. As if that was not bad enough, Wagner's collateral for the loans was Bond Anticipation Notes (statements of what the mayor expected to collect in taxes) based on the mayor's own estimate of the next year's revenues, rather than on last year's revenues. The effect of this practice, continued under subsequent administrations, allowed mayors to anticipate much more revenue than they knew the city would receive...
...which is sure to replace "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" on top of the fifth grade charts, has no business on this record. Part of the problem is the manifest influence of Malcolm MacLaren, the Sex Pistols' manager, who apparently drove Rotten from the band and tried to fill the vacuum. MacLaren is the same imbecile who tried to dress up the New York Dolls in Communist regalia and helped to ensure their demise. He actually sings a track on this album. "You Need Hands," but I have found that a carefully etched groove will cause your needle to skip over...
...Last year, he adds, six out of his eight first boaters had rowed in high school; stroke John MacEachern '81 and port oarsmen Bob Mudge '81 and Matt Arrott '81 had rowed for U.S. national teams. Experience is also evident in the varsity, where Coach Parker can more than fill his first boat with oarsmen who have already competed--and won--on international levels...
While the scheme had successful aspects, it also brought new problems. Says Robert Michels: "Thirty years ago, 75% of all psychiatric treatment was conducted in hospitals. Today, 75% takes place in an outpatient setting. That's progress." Still psychiatric patients fill 40% of all hospital beds in the nation, and the number of mental patients in nursing homes, prisons and single-room occupancy residences is up. Says Payne Whitney's John Talbott: "We've merely shifted the mentally ill population, not decreased...
...beginning of the movies coincided with the ending of three historical moments: years of peace in Europe, the frontier era in the American West, and the time when explorers tried to fill in the blank spaces on the globe. As one heroic age ended, a new one began, with new kinds of heroes: men and women who wondered what might be done with new-fangled motion-picture equipment to record the fleeting reality of their time...