Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plenty of local politicians are ready to fill the gap created by the retirement of three long-time liberal members of the City Council...
...past year the U.S. has grown increasingly concerned that the Khmer Rouge might fill a vacuum left by a Vietnamese retreat from Kampuchea. As part of Mikhail Gorbachev's overall policy of defusing Third World conflicts, Moscow has been pressuring Viet Nam to end its occupation. Hanoi has agreed to pull out all its troops by September. In response, China seems willing to cut off support to the Khmer Rouge once the Vietnamese complete their withdrawal...
Karl J. Leyser, a visiting professor of history who retired from All Souls College in Oxford last year, says he was invited to Harvard in order to fill a gap in the History Department's curriculum...
...truism of Harvard that when spring comes, protesters emerge from their winter hibernations to fill the Yard with the sounds of opposition. And for the past 17 years, supporters of a clerical workers union have joined the spring ritual in their efforts to gain administrative recognition...
...Fine Arts Library reading room and offices will take up the first floor of the building, while the second floor will house exhibition galleries. Additional offices and classroom space will fill the third floor, according to a statement released by the Harvard University Art Museums...