Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some amount of despair that we, as academic institutions, have created the environment in which that can happen." Last week the university suspended two more players for breaking unspecified "team rules," forcing Interim Coach Jimmy Williams to recruit * three new players, including two from the football team, to fill in during a stunning 70-65 upset victory over Ohio State...
...other specialists on Challenger had less publicized but important goals. The mission carried a $100 million NASA satellite, the second in a series designed to fill the communications gaps that now exist between orbiting spacecraft and ground stations. Among the experiments the crew was scheduled to conduct was the deployment of instruments that would measure the ultraviolet spectrum of Halley's comet. Another was to sample radiation within the spacecraft at various orbit points. There was even a student project in which the effect of weightlessness on the development of twelve White Leghorn chicken embryos would be studied...
Collins, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972, was to have occupied the Irish Studies chair and then coordinated the search for a scholar to fill the department's other tenured position, the Robinson Professorship of Celtic Language and Literatures. That post was vacated when former Chairman Charles W. Dunn retired in1984...
...official search for a scholar to fill thatpost was to begin after a department chairman wasselected...
...that Hearst has appointed himself editor, he is looking for someone to fill the newly created post of executive editor. McCulloch turned the job down but agreed to run day-to-day operations until the slot is filled. Hearst dismisses any suggestion that if he insists on ultimate control of the newsroom he may have trouble finding a successor to Burgin. "I give as free a hand as there is in journalism today," he says. "Ultimately, I could stay ) home in a bathtub and phone in ideas. If that works, great." But lolling in the suds does not seem...