Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many of the aircraft are equipped to process film in flight, then transmit it to newspaper offices via mobile radiophoto equipment. When a disaster breaks, speed is so important that most of the papers' airport mechanics are also trained to fill in as photographers. The dailies even use vacant lots near their offices as sites on which to drop negatives from helicopters when time permits. Asahi spends $694,000 a year on its air fleet, including the salaries of twelve pilots, 21 maintenance personnel and 30 other aides. "The greater the competition, the more planes we simply have...
President Quincy did not answer the petition the next day. Pressing to blunt the protest instead, the Government of the College decided to suspend one Freshman and one Sophomore the next day. Consequently the noise at evening Chapel increased although the Sophomores still left their seats vacant...
...nearly 2,000 political exiles who have been held on Aegean islands may be brought home, and some government employees ousted by the regime will get their jobs back. Papadopoulos seemed not to notice one irony: the press conference revealing all these freedoms was held in the now vacant Senate chamber of the Parliament building in Athens. One freedom that the birthplace of democracy has not recovered is a democratic assembly...
...city's April Fools' Day balloting also produced two winners with familiar names. Barry Goldwater Jr., 30, who may be more conservative than his Senator father, won the G.O.P. primary for a vacant Los Angeles seat in Congress. Edmund G. Brown Jr., 31, son of the former Governor, made good in his first race too, leading the primary field for a place on the city's newly created junior colleges board. Both are heavy favorites in their runoffs...
...double incentive to allow maintenance to deteriorate: it lessens his operating costs, and it may help him to get rid of troublesome tenants to to be replaced by ones willing--in a tight housing market--to ignore the law and pay extra under the table for a vacant apartment...