Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't originally scheduled to make the trip. She was called upon to fill in for senior team captain Kate Roiter, who was ill and could not compete...
...huge sacrifice to make for the good of the University; if even five percent of the 400 professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were willing to take on that burden for a semester or a year, we would have more than enough people to fill the slots...
LISA KUDROW, who plays the most airheaded of TV's Friends (quite a feat), has come to the aid of her country. She's taping a public service announcement with Al Gore encouraging people to fill out their tax forms. "It's not that it's my cause," Kudrow says. "But the Vice President of the United States asked me to do it." Kudrow has never filed a late return, nor broken any law since she was caught stealing candy as a child. "I think it's because I'm the type of person who likes to be right...
...songs are often in Urdu, he has built a following of hipster fans in the U.S. Khan is a singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Some American rock stars, perhaps seeking to fill a spiritual void in their own music, have gravitated to Khan. Eddie Vedder, leader of the prickly rock band Pearl Jam, sings two elegiac duets with him on the sound track of the film Dead Man Walking...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Ending weeks of speculation, the White House announced that President Clinton will nominate Alan Greenspan to a third term as Federal Reserve Chairman. The President also chose White House budget director Alice Rivlin for the number two position at the Fed, and economist Laurence Meyer to fill the third vacant spot on the seven-member board. The choice to renominate the highly popular Greenspan was a difficult one for a President frustrated by Greenspan's refusal to lower interest rates for fear of causing runaway inflation. Clinton has pushed hard for a lowering of rates...