Word: vacant
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...reward for Morrissey's services, President Kennedy first proposed elevating him to the federal bench in 1961, but backed down when the three bar associations balked; the Boston judgeship has been conspicuously vacant ever since. Three years later, when Bobby Kennedy was about to resign as U.S. Attorney General, he asked Lyndon Johnson to name Morrissey to the federal court. Morrissey's cause has been pressed since then by Teddy Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who has had a particularly close relationship with the old family factotum. "Teddy's attitude toward Morrissey," says one Washingtonian who knows...
...greatest upheaval since it was founded in 1942 for the purpose of designing and producing the world's first atomic bombs. Beginning next month, the Atomic Energy Commission will help Los Alamos toward independence by selling off $39 million worth of Government-owned homes, apartments, stores and vacant tracts of land...
...difference between this first novel and James Jones's From Here to Eternity, to which the publisher compares it, is that Jones had something to say, however gracelessly he said it. Author Linakis settles for Eternity's vacant form: a military milieu, dirty words, laconism parading as toughness, and the staccato sentences, intended as drumbeats, that only evoke memories of a first-grade reader. The scene is Belgium after the war. The action is provided by U.S. Army deserters and assorted, brutal military police...
Right now, the single most important factor to the anti-renewal forces of North Harvard is time. The BRA will almost certainly continue to demolish vacant homes on the site today, probably including some of the substandard that Harvard owned. The more structures that are demolished, the less likely it will be that claims that the neighborhood can be rehabilitated will stand...
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. This Constitutional amendment would clear up doubts about what happens if a President becomes incapable of performing his duties. Also, if the vice-presidency became vacant, the President would fill the vacancy subject to congressional approval. Now up for states' ratification...