Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the money came from the Bombay Stock Exchange, which is now a feverish financial center. On weekdays, hundreds of sweating, shoving and shouting traders fill an entire floor, recording transactions in soiled and curled-up note pads with leaky ball-point pens. As they jostle through the crowd in search of buyers or sellers, the action often becomes so intense that fights break out. For all that, the exchange has been one of the top performers in the world during the past two years. Prices have doubled since Rajiv Gandhi took office, and new stocks are regularly listed...
Indeed with the incredibly typecast actors, there are enough stereotypes in this movie to fill up a Tweeter audio store...
Flug will be among the contenders for senior tutor when the final decision is made some time next year, said Davis. Other possible choices to fill the office are not yet known, she said...
...contribution lay elsewhere. No performer, for one thing, was more at ease in front of the TV camera or treated it with such relaxed irreverence. Kovacs' live shows were an engaging mix of scripted bits (with such recurring characters as the lisping poet Percy Dovetonsils) and raucous improvisation (to fill an extra minute at the end of one show, Kovacs tossed a big balloon into the audience...
Publishers have adopted a variety of novel techniques to help stem the flood of telephone traffic. Borland International runs a forum on the CompuServe network where customers' questions are answered by either the company's technicians or other CompuServe subscribers. Lotus and Microsoft fill their disks with elaborate help messages that can be called up to the screen the moment a problem arises. Software Publishing, creator of the easy- to-use PFS filing and word-processing programs, refers callers back to their dealers...