Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what kind of men they make down here in Cambridge. We'd have a little drinking contest, and the first guy to pass out loses. We got enough beer up north to fill all the mouths in Massachusetts, and believe me, those mouths are big ones and it's not because of what they drink...
...classes don't fill your hunger for hearing smart people talk this week, you need hardly worry. The list of lecturing luminaries appearing this week in the Boston area is impressive. I don't know what Barry Commoner will speak on this Sunday at the Alumni Auditorium, 360 Huntington Ave. at Northeastern. But Commoner's areas of expertise are so broad that he can't help but offer some wisdom. Commoner's primary field seems to be energy and the environment. He's studied the effects of things like energy price rises, agricultural shortages, and production technology in general...
...start using them, they don't have to worry. Furthermore, it is hardly clear that the U.C. Davis program could ever be cited as a precedent for any truly rigid, institutionalized racial quota system. For that, the school must have a fixed number of places it is required to fill each year, or else a bottom and a ceiling. The U.C. Davis program fails to fit the definition: each year of the special 16-place program the medical school also admitted additional blacks in its general pool, and in one year the special admissions staff felt that only 15 qualified...
...integrity of the special admissions program has also come under fire. Like many medical schools, U.C. Davis usually reserves up to five places in its entering class for the dean to fill at his discretion. Critics charge these positions often go to less qualified applicants from influential families...
Quantity The Army can indeed meet its recruiting requirements with volunteers, though it has always been harder to fill than the Air Force, Marines or Navy, which are smaller and have rarely resorted to the draft. Although the 17-to 21-year-old population will decrease from 1980 through the early '90s, there will actually be a greater proportion of high school graduates-the prime recruiting target. Still, says Cooper, "the pool of eligible young people the Army draws from will be smaller, and that means it must be able to reduce its turnover and lower the need...