Word: filled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overwhelming progress in medicine, improved health care and increased life expectancy, more and more people who reach age 65 are unnecessarily forced to retire. In many cases mandatory retirement leaves severe psychological scars. Old people should not have to fill their last years with make-work and boredom when they are capable of leading active, productive lives...
...that haul grain, a huge export item, out of New Orleans and other Gulf Coast ports would be stopped. So the nation's already worrisome trade deficit would worsen. That would be a high price to pay for ensuring the incomes of a few thousand dock workers who fill a dwindling need anyway...
...this new European threat by bad-mouthing the Airbus as ill suited to the needs of U.S. airlines. Despite its size, the Airbus is basically a medium-range jet, and American planemakers contend that there are no routes in the U.S. where traffic would be heavy enough to fill a profitable percentage of its seats consistently. Eastern seems willing to take the gamble, however, and U.S. planemakers are apparently afraid that other European jets may eventually follow the Airbus into the American market. To ward off that long-term threat, Boeing, the giant of the U.S. industry, has sent...
...into the proper English of New Zealand and was introduced to Australian slang as a student at the University of Queensland. He later served with the Australian army in World War I-thereby learning the military idiom-before ending his linguistic tour in the rarefied dialect of Oxford. To fill in the gaps, he relies on an extended network of correspondents. They also keep him abreast of changes that "on balance, I should say are to the good." He particularly likes "wonderful American expressions such as skyscraper" but dislikes the "pitiable" sociopsychological jargon of American professors...
...chair will not be filled for at least ten years because nobody is currently qualified to fill a professorship in Korean Studies, Dwight Perkins, chairman of the Department of Economics and director of the chair, said earlier this year...