Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Housing and home-furnishing stocks. The theory here is that lower mortgage rates will put more people into houses, and they will have to fill the rooms with rugs, lamps, chairs and couches...
...think that Dean carried Jerry is the biggest joke of their career. Lewis, a genius at playing an idiot, was the brains of the act, Martin the gonads. So it surprised some that when the crooner went solo in 1956, he not only could get movie roles but could fill them handsomely. They were, to be sure, tailored to his talent--alcoholics and playboys--and in them he moved easily: as the cowardly G.I. in The Young Lions or the sodden gambler in Some Came Running. He spends most of 1959's Rio Bravo, his best film, staring mournfully...
...speculation that Charles would marry his longtime paramour, Camilla Parker Bowles. The divorce looks to be as simple as the wedding was grand. Under British law, when there are grounds for divorce (and there are), and both people agree to go ahead with it, the couple has only to fill out the legal papers and pay a $60 fee. After a six week waiting period, the marriage is terminated...
...speculation that Charles would marry his longtime paramour, Camilla Parker Bowles. The divorce looks to be as simple as the wedding was grand. Under British law, when there are grounds for divorce (and there are), and both people agree to go ahead with it, the couple has only to fill out the legal papers and pay a $60 fee. After a six week waiting period, the marriage is terminated...
...boring to complain about grades. Another fiction is that the evaluation process has nothing to do with grades. Students, it is said, fill out their evaluations before they take their finals, which gives them a more balanced view of the course they're taking. But this is hopelessly naive. By the time CUE evaluations are filled out, students have a pretty good idea what they're going to get in their courses; they've taken midterms, handed in papers and so on. There is often a direct correlation between the grades they've been given and the evaluations they...