Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because reviews of a departmental recommendation by an ad hoc committee and then by President Bok usually take between six and eight months, Mont-gomery said, the department does not expect to fill any of the slots until the fall...
...effort to fill four vacant tenured professorships, the Government Department recently appointed four committees to conduct separate searches for the posts...
...broadside. "It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks." Humphrey Atkins, a Thatcher loyalist who has been unable to ease tension in Ulster as Northern Ireland Secretary, was elevated to fill Gilmour's post, while Sir Keith Joseph, the ineffectual Minister of Industry, was moved over to Education...
...capacity still further. Even at that, it will be perhaps three years before the controller system is fully restaffed. It is unlikely that the number of controllers will ever reach its prestrike levels. The FAA has identified 3,000 controller jobs as "redundant" and says that it will not fill them...
...each new ecological niche is opened by the fall of an old species or the rise of a new environment, creatures will fill it by trial and error. Some will survive by preying on others. Some will protect themselves by mimicking other species (like today's Viceroy butterfly, which birds avoid because it looks just like the foul-tasting Monarch). Some will simply reproduce faster than their competitors...