Word: filled
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...confirmed that the most important of Ames' victims by far was Polyakov, whose briefing transcripts and photocopies of secret documents fill 25 file drawers in the agency's innermost sanctum. Many intelligence experts now believe that Polyakov made a far more important contribution than a more famous GRU turncoat, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, who was executed in 1963 for supplying the U.S. with information during the Cuban missile crisis. Of all the secret agents the U.S. recruited during the cold war, says CIA director James Woolsey, "Polyakov was the jewel in the crown...
...beginning was not auspicious. I mean, we knew that America hadn't exactly been counting the minutes before the release of this movie. But you'd expect the first showing of a flick starring Adam Sandler to at least fill a small theater in Cambridge. Especially when free tickets are advertised in The Crimson the day before...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that the central bank will probably raise interest rates again this year to avert inflation, despite predictions that the Fed had had its fill of rate hikes this year. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average obliged with a 20-point plummet. Greenspan, in his semiannual address to lawmakers, told the Senate Banking Committee that any signs of inflation would probably trigger a Fed vote to take interest rates--and the rates on consumer loans like mortgages--even higher...
...country's viewing audience. Though Charles' comments on his marriage occupied less than 10 minutes of the program, they, along with some controversial political statements, sparked a renewed debate over his suitability to be King. The House of Windsor once again was forced to raise the drawbridge and fill the moat against a barrage of criticism...
With the malaise of nihilism, the impending doom of the breakdown of the ozone layer, the tensions which seem to fill our lives on a day to day basis, it is nice, and comforting to escape into the life a small Southern town with its innocent and simple superstar and forget. Happy viewing, and may your destiny be as magical as Forrest...