Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials are among the critics: they estimate that 30% of permanent-residence petitions are fraudulent, with corrupt or incompetent lawyers often to blame. To have much hope of gaining a coveted green card, an immigrant must be related to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, qualified to fill a job for which there is a shortage of applicants in the U.S. or be a refugee facing persecution at home. Each category has bred its schemes and near scams. The easiest and most popular is the sham marriage. "Some are so phony they don't pass the laugh test," says Washington...
...occupations are often adaptations of what the immigrants did before. "People look for a match between what they can do and what offers an opportunity," says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer. "They try to find a niche, and what's surprising is that there's always a niche to fill." Jewish tailors from Central and Eastern Europe became important in the American garment industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Chinese laborers, barred by discrimination from many occupations in the American West, found that they could become entrepreneurs by opening laundries...
Alfred W. LaRosa was elected Wednesday by Cambridge's unusual system of proportional representation to fill the City Council seat of the late Mayor Leonard J. Russell, who died on June...
First time City Councilor Alice K. Wolf told The Crimson in a recent interview that she was "pleased with the current leadership" to fill the rest of Russell's mayoral term. She would not discuss her desire to become mayor until next November, which the seat once again will be up for grabs...
...stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody of evil...