Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe classical music is simply a losing cause. After all, many well-known composers wrote before this century, when music was one of the few things that could take you away from the mundanities of the world and fill your senses. Now, when we have television, movies and computers to assault our senses every day, maybe asking people to concentrate upon music is just too much. But its depth is too valuable to lose. We must do something to protect...
...over the past six months, the announcement came far too late. "We return the insult with our insult," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, congressional delegate from the District of Columbia. House Republicans late Wednesday night blocked an effort to withdraw Chirac's invitation. But despite a last-minute effort to fill the seats with congressional staffers, the French President was left speaking to a half-empty gallery...
Each recent election to fill openings for representatives is another tell-tale sign of our turnaround: last year such "special" elections were often uncontested, and when they were contested, voter-turnout was often abysmal. This year, nearly every race has multiple candidates, and turnout has been extraordinarily high...
...oversee the REP, Radcliffe will hire someone to fill the newly-created post of dean of educational programs...
...There are many people who could fill [Reeves' former] role," she says...