Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Lee fills Harvard lecture halls and fills the undergraduates in them with enthusiasm, Harvard need not fill its departments' lifetime posts with scholars who, like Lee, are incisive and engaging but unproven...
...haven't seen the freshmen yet, but seeing as we have only nine people back and we like to travel with a squad of 18 we have nine slots to fill," Hafferty says. "The freshmen have experience, but just how good they are we'll be seeing...
...wins, she will be the first Republican woman ever elected Governor in the U.S. If Mikulski wins, she will be the first female Democrat elected to the Senate who did not originally fill a vacancy left by her husband. Clearly, American politics is entering a new phase, one that reflects society's changing attitudes toward women. Even the traditional election-night celebrations are being transformed. In Maryland last week, an ebullient Kathleen Kennedy Townsend stood on the dais after the primary, thumbs up in victory. Next to her stood her husband David, their youngest child Kate in his arms...
...American automakers are enthusiastically turning to Italy, at least partly because the companies want to build vehicles that can fill special, small-volume niches in the marketplace. While typical U.S. auto plants are designed for assembling 220,000 cars annually, Italy still has the kind of shops where skilled workers lavish attention on just 5,000 or 10,000 cars a year. Detroit automakers particularly want to produce top-of-the-line vehicles that can compete with pricey imports. The domestic market for luxury cars, which are defined as those costing $15,000 or more, will make up an estimated...
Detoxification is only the first step: it must be supplemented by individual counseling, group therapy, vocational training and a range of activities to fill the void in a patient's life left by withdrawal. Phoenix House, one of the nation's largest community therapeutic programs, with facilities in New York and California, relies on rough-and-tumble group-encounter sessions that have proved effective in reshaping an addict's attitudes. Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, president of Phoenix House, says lying and rationalizations are a big part of being a drug abuser, and "the encounter enables him to see himself...