Word: filled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...applied for a second grant. Now that they’ve got it, Merrill-Oldham says, they can start searching for people to fill the new positions—and the senior conservator job will be a crucial one. “We need that leadership before we can go further, because you want that kind of expertise on the staff before you put the hard plans into place,” she said...
...can’t literally replace people like Bobo and Morgan,” but other capable professors will be found to “fill in” the necessary holes, he said, adding that “[Harvard] Afro-Am retains its number one status” despite the losses...
...earlier this summer, doubling the capacity of its harbor. Now large cruise ships can dock there. Three upscale hotels have also undergone renovations this year, a brand-new harbor-front hotel has opened, and by 2006 the tiny country will have 33% more rooms. Will the sought-after travelers fill them? Says spokeswoman Lisa Friedman: "Monaco's philosophy has been, If we build [them], they will come." --By Dody Tsiantar...
...main exhibition, which runs through Jan. 9, 2005, tell an important story about a place where for millennia the cultures of Central Africa and the Mediterranean have met and sometimes clashed. These items, mostly from recent excavations and on display outside Sudan for the first time, help to fill in the outlines of human history from the Paleolithic period to the end of Ottoman rule in Sudan in 1885. A 200,000-year-old pebble found among raw ochre lumps on Sai Island in the Nile appears to be smeared with yellow and red pigment. If the color was consciously...
...kind of divine comedic intervention that lights up her best fiction and overwhelms the bleakest corners. There could be no more astute and no less tedious a companion than Kennedy on a bender to oblivion. Salman Rushdie said once that what he sought in his novels was to fill the "god-shaped hole" left by his loss of faith. Her faith intact, Kennedy knows that God can be discerned in many things, even in the perfect form - a "long, slim doorway to somewhere else" - of a bottle of Bushmills. Paraidise is a deep drink...