Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Council leaders said the council should stick to the role it could best fill--social leadership. But instead of spearheading a drive to improve quality of life, the council showed its maddening inability to do anything that the student body wanted...
...down the midfield, but not far enough. There are still too many positions and too few players. The graduation of All-America Nick Hotchkin, whose speed went unchallenged at left midfield, has left a big hole in the Crimson lineup. Junior Richard Knight was expected to step in and fill the position, but Knight did not report to pre-season training and has informed Getman that he will not be playing soccer this fall...
...cannot keep up with the intellectual demands of an increasingly technological economy or with their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan. In addition to the 700,000 who, despite twelve years of what passes for formal education, have such poor reading skills that they cannot digest a newspaper or fill out a job application, an identical number drop out, forfeiting whatever educational benefits might be osmotically obtained from simply showing up for class...
Council leaders said the council should stick to the role it could best fill--social leadership. But instead of spearheading a drive to improve quality of life, the council showed its maddening inability to do anything that the student body wanted...
...away about half as much. But even the U.S. figure pales next to that of California, where some calculations have the average citizen throwing away 2,555 lbs. a year. Says Attorney Jill Ratner, who is active in environmental causes: "In Los Angeles County we generate enough trash to fill Dodger Stadium with garbage every nine days...