Word: fill
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However, Neilson discounted the possibility that the university would seek Bennett to fill the presidency. "You can't believe everything you read in the Daily," he said, referring to the daily campus newspaper, which splashed rumors of Bennett's candidacy on its front page last week...
Kennedy's likely confirmation by the Senate to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Lewis F. Powell is thus no small consolation to those who were troubled by the prospect of a Justice Bork and unsure what to make of a Justice Ginsburg. At the very least, liberals can take comfort in the make-up of the rogue's gallery which virulently opposed his nomination after Bork's bid went down to defeat in the Senate. Anyone who could so arouse the wrath of Ed Meese, Jesse Helms, Orrin Hatch and Strom Thurmond...
Editor's Note: At 11:45 p.m. on the night of January 19, 1989, the Reagan Administration nominated Judge Reinhold to fill the Supreme Court post vacated by Lewis F. Powell. So far, 14 nominees have failed to win the approval of the cantankerous Senate Judiciary Committee...
...modeled after the Soviet system. Though Managua controls only 40% of the economy, prices and wages in the private sector are also set by the Sandinistas. The Soviet Union has underwritten most of the direct costs of the war against the contras, but it has been less willing to fill what might be called the Micawber Gap, the expanding gulf between income and expenditure. Exports have fallen from $636 million in 1977 to an estimated $230 million this year. Imports have remained fairly constant at about $750 million a year. One result of the trade imbalance: Nicaragua's foreign debt...
Gorbachev did, however, fill in a few of Soviet history's most troubling blanks. Not since Nikita Khrushchev's now famous secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in 1956 had a Soviet leader so emphatically denounced the atrocities of the Stalin era -- particularly the terror-filled 1930s, when millions of citizens were arrested or summarily executed, or starved to death as a result of forced collectivization. Declared Gorbachev: "The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the party and the people for the wholesale repressive measures and acts of lawlessness is enormous and unforgivable. This is a lesson...