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Word: fill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that leaves more than enough funds for the Council to amuse itself--at this point, major costs like file cabinets and assistants to fill them with paperwork only take up a small portion of the $20,000 budget...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Bureaucratic Excessories | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Anthony M. Kennedy, President Reagan's third choice to fill out the Supreme Court, was confirmed unanimously by the Senate yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Confirms Kennedy, Fills Supreme Court Vacancy | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...officials said that they hope to fill the new position by the fall...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Unitarian Organizations Endow Theology Chair | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...Evening News, meanwhile, is enjoying its ratings windfall. Last summer TV's former No. 1 newscast fell to an ignominious third place. Then the A.C. Nielsen Co. converted to its new people-meter system (in which participants punch buttons rather than fill out diaries to record their viewing), and the program jumped back up to No. 1. Rather, who on the air showed the stress of troubled times, appears reinvigorated and relaxed, and the show has an attractive new set and swelling theme music. In an effort to give the newscast a further boost, correspondents from 60 Minutes will start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Back on The March at CBS News | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...that the big Christmas films have made their mint, each of these former reliables tiptoes into town with a new movie designed not to stir a sensation but to fill booking dates. Pryor's film, Moving, is a comedy about a mass-transit engineer who loses his job, relocates to the Idaho ruburbs and declares war on his "neighbor from hell" (Randy Quaid). Among the cast are < Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey, SCTV's Dave Thomas and the World Wrestling Federation's King Kong Bundy. Behind the camera is Alan Metter, who directed Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 hit Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nights of The Falling Stars | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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