Word: fill
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...have to have democratic unions." The attempt to proceed against the juntas has produced scant results beyond the detention of a few officers, although a newly established military tribunal has until the end of June to take action. And a bill that would have required democratic elections to fill union leadership positions was defeated in the Senate last March...
...another continent. He was in Peking as the executive producer for a 12-hr. TV mini-series called The Last Emperor: The History of China. "I didn't know anything about African culture before I started working on Roots," he explains. "If you do hard research, you can fill in your knowledge of any culture." As part of that research, Haley visited Peking's Forbidden City with Pu Jie, the only surviving brother of Emperor Pu Yi, who was deposed in 1911. If Haley was still learning about China, the Chinese seemed to know all about him; Roots...
...conductors fill too many jobs, again and again...
...almost gleeful haste, the opera company signed his replacement, precipitating his departure rapido: Italian Claudio Abbado, 50, who finished as music director at Milan's La Scala opera house last month. (Maazel's purely administrative duties have fallen to new General Director Claus Helmut Drese.) To fill Abbado's prized post, La Scala tapped another Italian, Philadelphia Orchestra Conductor Riccardo Muti, 42. In 1982 Muti rejected a similar offer from London's Royal Opera House to follow Sir Colin Davis there in 1986. Apparently La Scala's was an offer he could not refuse, although...
...with a reverse twist: there are too many chairs and not enough players. At any given moment, the number of major conductors in the world is insufficient to accommodate the opera companies and orchestras that are clamoring for their services. The top maestros jump from podium to podium to fill the gaps and often hold more than one job at a time; Abbado, for example, also conducts the London Symphony, and next year Previn will add London's Royal Philharmonic to his duties...