Word: vacant
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered no permanent courses in the field of Latin American Studies. The Robert C. Bliss Professorship of Latin American History and Economics, the University's only endowed chair in the area, had been vacant for eight years. While undergraduates and graduate students interested in Latin America looked elsewhere for instruction, the attitude of the various departments seemed to be one of indifference. During the past five years, significant changes have been made. In the coming academic year over twenty courses will be offered in the area. However, the results have been spotty, and the prospects...
...Department was offered the Gutman Chair. However, after two years passed without a nomination by the Department, Social Relations was given the opportunity to nominate Gino Germani. In the field of modern Latin American History there is only one junior, and no senior, faculty member. The Bliss professorship remain vacant...
Marihuana, as everyone should know by now, is a crude preparation of the leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the female hemp plant--Cannabis sativa. Cannabis (accented on the first syllable, like "Canada") is a common roadside weed, bound to be growing on some vacant lot within a mile of your home. The quality of a Cannabis product depends upon its resin content; compared to hashish (the pure, dried resin) and ganja (flowering tops only of specially cultivated plants)--neither available in this part of the world--marihuana is a sort of cubscout variety of hemp. Yet even with...
...from the Fringes. Farmland prices are jumping fastest on the fringes of cities, partly because speculators figure that population growth, low tax assessments on vacant land, and the growing net of federal highways will give them juicy profits. Also, inflation worries and stock-market jitters persuade some investors that land is a safer outlet. Heavy buying has lifted the price of farms near Minneapolis by 20% in the past year; land five miles from the center of Youngstown, Ohio, has quadrupled from $500 to $2,000 an acre in eight years. The city of Wichita recently paid $600 for cornfields...
...Trumbull Professorship, which has been vacant since Key's death in 1963, was created to honor an 18th century jurist who was chief justice and then governor of Connecticut. It is an nonorary position. "I can't even graze my cows in the yard," McCloskey said...