Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shake hands with their guests, they bunched together behind their table in a Kremlin banquet hall. It was symbolic confirmation of the vexing problem that faced the Soviet Union as it prepared for the second transition of power in only 15 months: there was no obvious candidate to fill the vacancy left by Andropov. Says Cornell University Political Scientist Myron Rush: "Since nobody is in a strong position, practically everybody is in a strong position...
...south. During their occupation, however, the Israelis had allowed Phalangist militiamen to move into areas of the Chouf previously controlled by the Druze. Fearing an outbreak of hostilities between the two factions, the U.S. urged the Israelis to delay their redeployment until the newly trained Lebanese Army could fill the vacuum. The Israelis postponed their withdrawal by only a few days. As soon as they pulled out on Sept. 4, fighting broke...
...seems to be with the small number of musicals that have appeared on the Mainstage recently. First, the Mainstage is a large, cavernous, expanse of a theater: this presents difficult acoustical problems. Obviously, it is essential to hear performers in a musical distinctly and clearly. Second, musicals that would fill the physical expanse of the Mainstage are often too big. We do have a limited budget, augment of time, technical expertise, and labor, there is often a worry that these constraints will not to do the musical production justice. Thirdly, musicals are "component" works: acting, singing, dancing, music...
...addition to enabling more transfer student to live on campus, the new guidelines have also helped to live on campus the new that vacated rooms are filled as soon as possible, "As soon as a room is vacated in a House, the assistant calls they and I send the next [transfer] student on the list over to took at the room." This effort to fill rooms stands in contrast to last year when the occasional room vacated in the middle of a semester would remain empty, she said...
...improvement in the near future, especially since any of Andropov's possible successors are firmly indoctrinated with party politics, or what now passes for Marxist-Leninist ideology Konstantin U. Chernenko, the odds-on favorite, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Grigory V. Romanov, or any of the other party bigwigs who may fill Andropov's spot will probably serve as the front-man for the ruling Politburo at least for several years. As with the past five Soviet rulers, power consolidation will undoubtedly come slowly...