Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular, the role of the Sikhs in the past few months of turmoil throws new variables into the role of the army in India's volatile democracy. This minority (see accompanying story) forms a disproportionately large block of military leadership; with only two percent of India's population, Sikhs fill almost 15 percent of the military's officer billets. A Sikh general led the attack (which Indira Gandhi ordered) on the Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, and now rumors abound that this catalyzed a high-level conspiracy in the army to assassinate Gandhi with the help...
...much power has been placed in their hands. Said one of the most creative of television's veterans, Producer Don Hewitt of CBS: "Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. Give the parties control of the two hours of prime time we allot. Let them fill it as they want. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours...
Guthke, who is also the department's chairman, said he will talk with senior members of the department to select someone else to fill the post. He added that he will talk to Dean Spence after consulting his department...
...country will never forget the sixteen years of her indomitable presence in New Delhi. "Indira is India!" cried the slogans of the 1980 election campaign and indeed millions of Indians, friends and enemies, supporters and opponents, the in tellectuals and the common-man wait anxiously, hoping that someone will fill the vacuum she has undoubtedly left behind...
...fill the space between the extended pinup sequences and Charle's nonstop social commemary, Laura tells her own story. The poster manages to say a few words. She wants to sing, but her lead guitar has departed for L.A., leaving her stranded without a band and without...