Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainly been a time where we can fill in our gaps [in knowledge] and use our strengths and backgrounds [for others]," Glass says...
...rest of the state that you sometimes hear talk of "two Georgias" -- meaning modern prosperous Atlanta and backward, impoverished everything else. Atlanta is free at last. The traces of a Georgia town -- a big Georgia town, but still a Georgia town -- are gradually disappearing, as the suburban office parks fill up with Yankees. Even people who sound like they might be from Georgia seem to be disappearing. Atlanta magazine ran a story called The Vanishing Southerner -- a character who can be heard, as he fades away, grumbling that all the places that used to serve barbecue have been turned into...
...Dukakis loves to be challenged and found no problem there. "Then there are the classes themselves. Other politicians come in, spend the first sessions on the political lessons they have learned in a lifetime, and then wake up to the horrible realization that there are another 30 hours to fill. Michael prepared his syllabus ahead of time, knew his cases, had done all the readings." Pacing a course offered little challenge to the man who never stayed up at night to cram. He opened up to discussion, becoming a very popular teacher...
...sweeten offers, many employers supplement higher wages with such incentives as hiring bonuses, free trips and job training. Flexible schedules are increasingly appealing to those from two-income families. Von's, a California grocery chain, had trouble finding enough students and other young people to fill its 16-hour-a-week schedules for baggers and clerks, so it expanded the workweek for those jobs up to 32 hours, which can be arranged to the employee's liking. The purpose: to attract homemakers, retirees and other people looking for supplemental income...
...flock but would not necessarily minister to everyone. Any congregation that rejected the notion of a woman bishop could petition the diocese to come under the special care of a male "Episcopal Visitor" who would substitute for the spurned woman prelate at Communion, baptisms and confirmations. Visitors could also fill in for male bishops whose support for women bishops offends traditionalists. To make matters even more complex, the regular bishops, be they male or female, would still make the periodic pastoral visits required by church law, even to traditionalist parishes that had rejected them...