Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smyrna's dynasty survives. The five-member town commission took all of ten minutes to name Brother Knox to fill out the remaining 2 1/2 years of Sam's term. Said Knox: "Sam will be my right arm." Municipal policies will remain unchanged, and voters may not even notice that a new man is in charge: born 20 minutes apart 67 years ago, now with the same type eyeglasses and portly build, Sam and Knox are identical twins...
...most intriguing was called Six o'Clock News. Its inspiration: "I would visit my parents, and they would be watching the news, not knowing what was going on, just sitting there with the TV, lost." It is an 18-ft. by 27-ft. room -- in all, enough lint to fill a U-Haul van, ceiling to floor, which it does. It is like one of those Koren cartoons in The New Yorker -- everything and everybody is fuzzy -- except it is not at all funny...
...Soviet salesmen touring the U.S. last week certainly made an aggressive capitalistic pitch: since NASA is out of the business of launching commercial satellites, the Soviet Union would happily fill the void -- for a reasonable price. The delegation from the civilian space agency Glavkosmos visited Washington and Houston, offering to loft U.S. satellites for about half the price of a ride on the European Ariane rocket. To assuage U.S. fears that technological secrets would be compromised, the Soviets even offered to accept the satellites in sealed packages...
...will end up at Beheshteh Zahra, the sprawling martyrs' cemetery south of Tehran, where red water symbolizing martyrs' blood flows from a fountain. Every day bulldozers work at the cemetery, carving out new rectangular plots the size of Olympic swimming pools for those slain in battle. Gravediggers say they fill one with bodies in two weeks. The dead arrive so rapidly that pieces of cardboard, usually stapled with photographs of the fallen, mark burial sites until marble slabs can be put in place. Wives and mothers in chadors, the flowing black robes, move silently through the rows of grave markers...
Despite extensive study, there is no assurance that unexpected side effects of olestra and other forms of SPE will not appear if the compounds go into wide use. Moreover, skeptics fear that many dieters will fill up on SPE-laden snacks and not eat enough natural foods with essential vitamins and other nutrients...