Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to restructuring its introductory curriculum, the department will soon begin looking to fill one of its two open tenure positions, an appointment members hope to make this year...
Department members say they are not looking to fill a gap in a particular field, as is generally the case when departments have tenured posts to fill. Instead, Grabar says, the department has decided to search out a specialist with a background in many different fields--perhaps Chinese painting and early renaissance art, for example...
Professors have said that while they are not specifically looking to hire a female to fill specific academic gaps, they hope to find a number of qualified women scholars in those fields...
...charges against Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, 58, and seven of his associates, including a brother and a nephew, fill 53 pages crammed with 50 counts of racketeering, fraud and obstruction of justice. U.S. District Judge Marcel Livaudais Jr. needed one hour and 15 minutes just to read the allegations in New Orleans last week. All told, the trial could go on for two months and entail the examination of up to 80 witnesses. Even before the proceedings began, each of the jurors was sandbagged with five fat folders, 2 in. to 3 in. thick and packed with pertinent documents...
First you tear up 250 acres of California ranchland. Then you fill the holes with tons of sewage, cyanide, Nair hair-removal cream, spoiled Coca-Cola syrup, winery dregs, rocket fuel, rat carcasses, nitric acid, paint chips and fish organs. What do you get? A state-of-the-art toxic-waste-treatment facility...