Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is wrong, but that doesn't mean the company is going to fold." That should console Chairman Fisher. In the past month the value of the 9.5 million Gap shares that he and his wife own fell by close to $360 million. That is quite a gap to fill...
Everywhere, from bookstores to boardrooms, from trading floors to ivory towers, speculations about the financial future fill the air. Declares Economist Robert Heilbroner, writing in The New Yorker: "It is a sense that an ill-defined but vast crisis looms on the economic horizon." In a University of Wisconsin-Madison survey of 105 top executives of major U.S. corporations, half the business leaders assigned a "high probability" to the advent of a major depression in the next ten years...
...rural, one-stoplight town has one thing in abundance: bars. When all the college kids go home for the summer, these bars fill up with beer-drinking, tobacco-spitting, tavern league softball junkies...
...NEVER been in a state where backyard fireworks were legal. This summer I visited one long enough to fill my rental car trunk with three grocery bags full of explosives, only to drive back to one of the 13 states with a ban on all amateur pyrotechnics. More than just another brightly colored toy, fireworks from the first-line of defense against teenage terror...
OVER the summer, a post opened in the top tier of Harvard's management. Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien left to run the business school at UMass/Amherst, and Vice President for Administration Robert Scott moved up to fill his place...