Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan would have each house set aside 25 percent of their rooms for random assignment. Students would make three choices as they currently do, but houses would fill sooner. The students left would be assigned randomly to the rooms set aside by each house. This makes for a larger pool for each house to draw on, and thus a greater mix of students would be divided between the houses...
...while Dukakis stupidly insisted that such a label was "meaningless." For John Sasso, the street-savvy alter ego of Dukakis who was rehabilitated on Labor Day weekend to take over the campaign, this single mistake spelled the end. "One of the rules of the business is somebody gets to fill up the cup," he explained. "If you want to be successful, you have to fill it up first...
...cast, headed by Robin Williams and Steve Martin, and a run limited to seven weeks in a 291-seat theater made the show a sellout. In fact, the box office never even opened to the general public: the Manhattan arts complex's 36,000 drama subscribers were enough to fill the 16,000 places more than twice over...
...superbly symbiotic arrangement. The celebrity media fill their space and time; the hype Houdinis manage simultaneously to alert and to anesthetize the moviegoer. At times, they stroke and stoke each other. "Appearances on a lot of shows are designed to impress the media rather than the public," says Warren Cowan, chairman of the Rogers & Cowan agency. "Writers and editors watch the morning shows, say, and decide to check the stories out." For the sake of detente, these natural adversaries must get along to get ahead. "Some journalists say that the publicity machine isn't worth the powder it would take...
Cozza made no promises about giving Kehler the starting job, but Kehler accepted the offer. "As long as I could just be there [on the sidelines] and fill in a space, that's fine," the Valley View, Pa., native said...