Word: filled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both posts vacant. Wielding his influence shrewdly, he built Algeria into a political force to be reckoned with and was determined to make it an industrial power as well. When he died last week at 53, he left a gap that no one countryman of his could hope to fill...
...hold in such abundance, OPEC nations might not have agreed to such a large price increase if Iranian production had not been disrupted. When rebellion broke out there in September, output fell from 6 million bbl. a day to less than half a million. Though Saudi Arabia tried to fill the gap with its own surplus, that did not suffice. "The drop in production in Iran was the important factor in the price boost," says a U.S. Treasury official. "The Saudis are able to hold off the price hawks as long as they have excess capacity. They couldn...
...Times says Hillary is "the one candidate who will best fill the vast gap that will be left in the Senate and within the Democratic Party by the retirement of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan." Did we expect Republican Rick Lazio to be the one candidate who could best fill that gap within the Democratic party? No. The Times' editorial board was not deciding between Lazio and Clinton at all, but was applying its solemn rubber stamp to a foregone partisan conclusion...
...inflation rate. Thus the budget for fiscal 1980 looks much more like a "lean and tight" spending program than did the bloated one Carter produced last January. Next year's budget is already a success for OMB Boss James Mclntyre, who came to the job last winter as a fill-in replacement for the fallen Bert Lance, and only recently seems to have taken effective hold of his department. Staffers detect a new crispness in Mclntyre's decisions and report that he often backs up his rulings by saying: "Fm holding firm on that?let him take it [on appeal...
...fact, that sensibility is frequently in distinguishable from Updike's gilded-gesso prose, a doge's palace of words that are as unexpectedly suited to fill the dreaded emptiness of Kush as they did the drab streets of Olinger, the fictional setting of some of the author's earlier stories...