Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show was about hacking out issues, extreme versus extreme," said Robert Pittman, adding that programs such as the Downey show are steps forward because they fill entertainment and not news slots, and therefore are providing more overall exposure to current issues...
...first time in nearly two decades, the Law School faculty may fill the chair of its East Asian Legal Studies program after voting unanimously to offer the post to a professor from the University of California at Los Angeles...
...storage room in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, where poaching has been rampant, bears witness to this carnage. Tiny bloodstained tusks from infant elephants fill an entire shelf. Each is the length of a candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper...
...overwhelmed to the point that care for other patients is threatened. Says Bellevue's Dr. Lewis Goldfrank: "There is going to be hospital gridlock by 1990, because there's not enough long-term, short-term or emergency-care space for AIDS patients. I think they're eventually going to fill every hospital bed in the big cities...
Jeff and Beau Bridges play Jack and Frank Baker--brothers who make their living in a two-piano nightclub act. Frank spits out the typical lounge-lizard vapid-speak which is endemic to "fill-the-tables/move-the-liquor" -type establishments. Jack, the younger, hipper and better-looking of the two, steadfastly suffers through the schmaltz for 31 years...