Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelter workers are skeptical that their groups can fill the gap. Deborah Battista, who works at the Harbor Me shelter in East Boston, says that Massachusetts shelters, which last year temporarily housed 34,444 women and children, could never afford to foot the bill for t.r.o. applications. "Shelters exist on minimal state and private funding," she says...
...Kurzman's. "The Most Lucrative Job on Campus." Of particular concern to me was the fact that Charlie neither spoke with me not any of Brian's other employers at length regarding this matter. It seems to me that in order to understand why we hired a student to fill this position, Charlie would have to speak with...
...contrast to Room 13, which handles a variety of personal problems, the Eating Problems Outreach Group (EPO) started to fill a specific need. The group, which deals with "food issues intertwined with other aspects of life," according to staffer Marsha Rorty '85, showed a film in December called "I Don't Have to Hide," a story about a bulimic woman. In April it brought the theater group "Food Fright" to Harvard for a "humorous but very moving account of eating disorders," says Rorty, and sponsored a five hour workshop on eating concerns...
...other words, everyone agrees that the job wasn't originally intended to be filled by an undergraduate. Last year's Executive Secretary, in fact, had a Ph. D. degree. But nobody seems willing to do anything now that it's been proven that a student can fill the post. Members of the Undergraduate Council praise Melendez as a competent, efficient office manager. "I think there will always be undergraduates qualified to do this job," Melendez says. So why are we stuck with the seven dollar rate...
...persuaded 47 men and women to join the Army and Army Reserve, more than half again as many as his quota. "No," he corrects with deadpan good humor, "we don't have quotas. We have missions." Over four years, he figures, he has signed up enough people to fill an infantry company. A smart company too: five of Yasenak's privates were college graduates, and his recruits tend to score better on their military entrance exams than the Army demands. But his new medal and his prize, a week for two in Hawaii, are not simply rewards...