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Word: fill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than 12,000 students who apply to the College each year. More than 4000 veterans of the Harvard admissions process annually volunteer their services to the office, interviewing candidates in their home towns and passing on their impressions to Cambridge. In the past, the form provided for interviewers to fill out about each candidate has suggested that interviewers should only relay their general impressions about a candidate and not try to glean too much from a 45- to 60-minute conversation. "We understand that in the short span of the interview time, it is impossible to know with much certainty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overdeveloping Applicants' Pictures | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...tighter. Proponents assert that the referendum "mandates" more labor intensive industry and therefore will actually create jobs. But as long as a free market economy exists in the city, no cite can just "make" jobs, In the current shaky economy, common sense argues this no business will jump to fill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dangerous Law | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...Secretary of State George Shultz, she felt, was too absorbed in international economic policy, East-West issues and crisis management in the Middle East to develop strategy elsewhere. Until now, she and her hard-line allies, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey, had been able to fill the gap, but only because Clark listened to them-and Reagan listened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feelings of Hurt and Betrayal | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...widespread efforts to round up drunken drivers, more and more motorists are being confronted by a piece of law-enforcement technology called the blood-alcohol tester. Several companies are competing to fill the demand for these devices as police departments equip their officers for tactics like spot-check roadblocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Breathe Before You Weave | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...expected to watch a superparade that boasts a dozen musical groups, snaking dancers, and floats devoted to ghosts, ghouls and warlocks. At 8 p.m., the height of the parade, a huge spider will wriggle up the Village clock tower. At Area, a trendy nightspot, Owner Shawn Hausman will fill the club with macabre trappings such as a display in which mists rise from a pond awash with skeletons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Halloween as an Adult Treat | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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