Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hufton turns Harvard down, then therewill still be enough time for the plannedconcentration to find another scholar to fill thepost for 1987-88, she said...
...airline surged from 1 million in 1981 to nearly 12 million last year. But People bought planes and added flights so rapidly that the percentage of seating capacity used dipped from a 1983 high of 75% to an average so far this year of 60%. The company needs to fill 65% of its seats to break even. As Burr puts it, "Right now we're simply offering more than the public wants...
...chief domestic priority, tax reform, and the House advanced one of his greatest foreign policy goals--aid to the contras fighting in Nicaragua. It was a fine seven days for the White House. Reagan had nominated Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist to become Chief Justice, and Antonin Scalia to fill Rehnquist's seat, and they promised to be eminently successful nominations. In the months before, the Philippines and Haiti had gone his way, toward democracy. He had struck back at Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. He had flown to Geneva and spent five hours with the supposedly formidable Mikhail Gorbachev, doing...
...fill Rehnquist's seat as an Associate Justice, the President picked Antonin Scalia, the son of an Italian immigrant, who has served since 1982 as a Reagan appointee on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Brilliant, engaging, tenacious and solidly conservative, Scalia (pronounced Skuh-lee-uh) will be a valuable ally for the new Chief Justice (who is already his crony in a floating monthly poker game in Washington) as well as a force on the court in his own right...
...contest to fill Rehnquist's seat quickly narrowed to Scalia and a fellow judge on the appeals court in Washington, Robert Bork. A respected former Yale Law School professor, Bork had been lured from a lucrative law- firm job in Washington to the federal bench with strong hints from the Administration that he would be first in line for the next available spot on the court. But Bork carries some political baggage: as acting Attorney General ! in 1973, he obeyed Nixon's order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; Elliot Richardson had resigned as Attorney General rather than fire...