Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper, three-year starter Chico MacKenzie, who will finish high on the career scoring list and currently leads the team with 26 goals, figured to fill that role for the Crimson this time around...
...ball and to take the best advantage of opportunities when they come his way. He is not in a position to take charge when the game starts to slip away. Several members of the team also mentioned that Chico just isn't the kind of player, personality-wise, to fill that role...
...tell you the truth, though, I really can't understand why you're taking so long to fill this position. Mr. Watson, it seems, announced his decision to step down well-nigh six months ago, presumably to give his successor plenty of time to get acclimated...
...story, and-but why go on? Anybody who did not spend the years 1972-74 in a bathysphere can imagine the rest, and that is the trouble. Once the correspondences begin to fall into place,.watching the movie complete the pattern has all the excitement of watching somebody fill in the outlines on a piece of needlework. The Watergate references are the sole point of most of the shenanigans; yet the movie has nothing particular to say about Watergate-unless the trivialization itself is the message...
Morale at the FDA is frequently bad these days, and senior positions can be hard to fill. Example: Commissioner Kennedy, a biologist, took over last month, a full three months after the resignation of his predecessor, Dr. Alexander Schmidt. In addition, Schmidt had given five months' notice of his intent to leave. Acknowledges Kennedy, who has developed a crash-course understanding of the FDA's problems: "I am learning that the agency does little that is not controversial...