Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter walked across the street in the autumn sunshine for lunch at Blair House. U.S. Ambassador Roy Atherton excused himself from one session and strolled to the Oval Office to fill in the President. Israel's Dayan and Weizman took the short journey to the White House, inhaling sparkling air and enjoying the fall coloring of the trees along Pennsylvania Avenue. Whether at the White House or Blair House, the coffeepots perked merrily...
...students living in the United States. Other touches added by Parker only underline the anti-Turkish prespective of the film: subtitles seem to have been deliberately omitted, thereby inflicting an incomprehensible gibberish on anyone who does not speak Turkish; the swarthy faces of Turksih prision guards and interrogrators often fill the screen, making them all the more sinister and awe-inspiring...
...compromise is hardly surprising, given the University's generally callous attitude toward union employees. While the contract contains a reasonable wage increase, food services remains a traditionally lower-paid industry. The pensions offered in the latest contract are still pitifully inadequate, and so workers need expanded benefits to fill the wage gap. Despite kitchen workers' requests that the University consider these concerns, Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and Harvard's chief labor negotiator, refused to compromise. Instead, he threatened to retract concessions Harvard had already granted in the contract...
...been able this year to generate enough student interest in its operations to fill its 38-member legislature. Ten seats remain open, and only Lowell and Mather Houses had enough candidates for representative posts to require general elections. Leaders of the group have charged each other with inadequate preparation and publicity for the elections...
...fourth lead, David Levi as Nathan Detroit, is the weakest of the four, but still manages to fill the bill. Nathan should be played somewhere along the line between macho and henpecked-neurotic, the way Sam Levene created the character in the original back in '47. Levi has a nice voice, but it doesn't help much; Nathan doesn't have to sing very often. His characterization seems somehow too neurotic, too much mama's boy and not quite enough swagger for the proprietor of a floating crap game. But he's funny. They're all funny, or at least...