Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continuing Republican onslaught against social spending threatens to fill even more cities with the blocks of rubble and zones of poverty that pockmark New York, Detroit, and other major metropolises. Unemployment in many hovers well over 10 per cent. Among Black city dwellers, it is unconscionably high--16.1 per cent overall and 42 per cent for Black teenagers. The $31 billion in budget cuts proposed by Stockman will only make those statistics worse, as job training programs, unemployment compensation, and large chunks of other welfare programs go by the boards...
...that she becomes selfconscious, and her eyes fill up with tears. She says that she is thinking of her father who was left behind in Viet...
...with an injury to Dixon over winter break, McLaughlin has been forced to come up with a replacement for the junior speedster, who is the only player on the team who can naturally fill the point guard slot, controlling the ball and penetrating into the lane, opening up the corners for shooters Joe Carrabino and Bob Ferry...
Stevenson said he returned to teaching to fill a "growing societal need for supporting growth and risk-taking during this time of declining productivity and increasing unemployment and uncertainty...
...served the two four-year terms that local law allows. Among the 1,300 friends who turned up for the $100-a-plate affair were Singer Gladys Knight, and former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor-elect Andrew Young. "I don't know that anybody's going to fill your shoes," said Young as he surveyed Jackson's ample 6-ft. 3-in. frame. "And certainly not your suits...