Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are, in recent months they helped organize a soup kitchen for their hunger-crazed neighbors, lining up donations of food from local companies. The project fed 300 people a day, most of them children. Parents were too embarrassed to come and sent their children with pots to fill...
...reason is an unusual mixture of efficiency and political naivete at the Commerce Department, where Secretary Robert Mosbacher did not ask Bush to sign a waiver until he knew there would not be enough nonpolitical applicants to fill 2,700 management jobs, which pay up to $18 an hour...
...local advocacy group which historically has recommended candidates for the tenant representative slot, last fall gave Healy the names of two tenants to fill the vacancy...
...need more names," Turk said. "There has been a delay that could have been avoided." He also complained that one of the CTU's candidates dropped out because Healy "waited so long" to look into the matter. "So, obviously, that's extended the amount of time" taken to fill the board, Turk added...
...same vein, many computer customers believe the industry's innovative efforts at the moment are failing to fill users' needs. They believe the expansion during the early and mid-1980s was based largely on the proliferation of such breakthrough products as the Apple II personal computer (1977); WordStar, the wordprocessing program (1979); VisiCalc, an electronic accounting ledger or spreadsheet (1979); the IBM PC (1981); Apple's Macintosh, with its advanced graphics capability (1984); and desktop- publishing gear like Aldus PageMaker...