Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the endorsement of large law firms and bar associations, volunteer projects are already operating nationwide to fill in for reduced full-time poverty law staffs. In Boston, 10% of the city's 7,500 lawyers have pledged to take up to five cases a year on a pro bono basis. But even participants note that such efforts do not replace legal services programs...
Shortly after his victory in 1980, when Reagan was mulling over appointments, he boasted that Weinberger could fill any Cabinet post. The Defense Secretary, for his part, is an extremely loyal team player who is fond of pointing out that Reagan is the "most underrated world leader of our time," and often compares his boss to Winston Churchill...
...also use a driver who can keep both him and his car on the straight and narrow until he can keep his appointment with a modest destiny. Seems as though his nephew Whit, a skinny boy of 14, but watchfully wise for his age and an ace wheelman, might fill the bill...
...occasional Jeep ride to a hilltop aerie he owns in Connecticut. He takes a robust pleasure in spending his "low six figure" income: "It's my only frivolous side. I buy a picture and then say, 'Sorry, Con Ed.' If I had money I would fill my walls with Ernst, Klee and Kandinsky...
...matters of the heart fill the news these weeks, both firsts and quickly related. In Utah, Dr. Barney Clark was fitted for an artificial heart, and in Texas, the heart of Charles Brooks Jr. was stopped by doses of sodium thiopental, pavulon and potassium chloride administered by the department of corrections. One can muse on the irony of medical inventiveness being used for two antipodal purposes, but irony is not the mood with which the public is left. For Clark one feels apprehension, appreciation and a passing sense of social advancement. For Brooks one feels a vast emptiness and impotence...