Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether "space" rock is just a one-album joke or a pathbreaking funk mutant will have to await the future actions of Afrika Bambaataa, Spaceman Jonzun, and their cohorts. But regardless, the Jonzuns have a good thing going, good enough to fill a first album with exciting and completely electronic music...
...most of the minor league season at first base, though he closed it out with his familiar turf in left field--both spots the Expos are strong at Jim Fanning, who oversees the club's farm organization, yesterday raised the possibility that Stenhouse may play in right field or fill in occasionally at first...
McMullan has been with the Knight (now Knight-Ridder) newspaper chain ever since 1957. When he was assigned to liven up its Washington bureau, his eagerness produced an uneasy rebuke from the bureau chief: "John, you were sent here to fill a vacuum, not overflow it." In 1970 McMullan left to execute a wholesale purge of the chain's newly acquired Philadelphia Inquirer. In three years, McMullan replaced a third of the paper's reporting staff, including virtually every department head. The overhaul was to turn the Inquirer into one of the strongest newspapers...
...Miami's board of trustees, you would have taken off some of the best people in town." The McMullan style will be difficult to emulate. His successor, former Managing Editor Heath Meriwether, 39, will not try. Says he: "My approach is collegial and consensus building. Rather than fill John's shoes, I thought I would just bronze them and hang them on the wall...
...Kennedy School of Government has selected a new director of external relations, continuing an effort to fill gaps caused by the departure of administrators and faculty earlier this year to work for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, officials confirmed yesterday...