Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Proctor said he is leaving the post because the massively decentralized Harvard bureaucracy made the job "no fun." He was appointed less than 18 months ago after Harvard conducted a search to fill the post that took nearly as long as Proctor was in office...
...seems, has been difficult to fill. A source close to the administration said the Proctor search dragged on so long because Harvard was turned down by two or three candidates before it was able to hire Proctor...
Even though the Proctor search took more than a year, Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs James H. Rowe III'73 said he expects the University will fill the position by the start of the next academic year...
...fugitives, the Widow Begbick (Valerie Eaton), Trinity Moses (Bob Grady), and Fatty the Procurist (Eric Aubin), who in a desperate attempt to make money found a city of pleasure in the desolate Alabama wilderness. The trio invent the name "Mahagonny," (meaning "city of nets," according to the characters) and fill the city with workers, criminals, pimps and prostitutes, offering weary adventurers a life of pure hedonism. "Mahagonny," like Brecht himself, is decidedly anti-capitalist and even anarchistic, and the doomed city exemplifies the amazing freedoms and pleasures of the flesh that many capitalist societies offer...
...altitudes of about 10,000 ft. and higher, mountain climbers run the risk of developing a serious condition in which their lungs fill with water. Now scientists in Switzerland report that inhaling an extremely diluted dose of nitric oxide gas--about the amount present in Los Angeles smog--can help treat the problem...