Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SWITCH AND FIGHT. When two-term Congressman Eugene Atkinson changed his affiliation from Democrat to Republican a year ago, prospects for his re-election seemed rosy. His new G.O.P. friends promised to fill his coffers with cash and gerrymander his Fourth Congressional District in Pennsylvania to suit his new identity. They came through. Republican national organizations contributed $57,000 to his race against unknown Democrat Joseph Kolter, 56, and the state legislature cut the district's 45,000 Democratic edge in half. But few foresaw the ravages of recession in this steel-mill area, where unemployment...
...Colombo, that the Lebanese army will have to be enlarged from 22,000 men to 50,000 or even 60,000 in order to provide for the country's security once the Syrian and Israeli occupiers have been withdrawn. Such an increase cannot be achieved quickly. Gemayel could fill the army's ranks with troops from the Christian militias that solidly support him. But that could prove disastrous at a time when he is trying hard to reunite the country. The Reagan Administration at first appeared to take a dim view of increasing its troop commitment to Lebanon...
...Amin was elected to fill the vacant seat. He subsequently earned a reputation in his own right as an active and thoughtful legislator. He is an eloquent speaker, something highly prized in Arab politics, and is fluent in French and English, as well as in Arabic. In addition to running prosperous family shipping and insurance interests, he founded a conservative French-language newspaper, Le Reveil, located in Beirut. Says Pierre: "Amin has his weaknesses. I know; I raised him. But he is also a person of character, of strong values, and I know that he will use them strongly...
...department's brightest young star, Lawrence J. Summers, who will join the Faculty after a one-year stint on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors. "He was hired away at the last minute," complains MIT Department Chairman E. Cary Brown. "We were counting on him to fill a very serious need here...
Complicating Harvard's personnel skirmishes with MIT are the two institution's clashing methods of recruiting tenured professors. MIT, says Brown, lends to hire young economists and "grow them up in the department." Harvard on the other hand, typically considers only professors with tenure else here to fill its own tenure vacancies...