Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chronically indecisive about a redesign, despite having commissioned five prototypes over the past eight years, including versions of a tabloid format favored by Acting Editor John Lindsay. He quit in disgust in February. Lindsay is not alone; the positions of publisher, managing and executive editor and art director remain vacant...
...coloreds were removed from their bustling and vibrant neighborhood and shipped to a housing project outside town so that their old homes could be razed and replaced with white businesses and high-rises. Many whites boycotted this scheme, however, and the razed area remains a series of vacant lots...
Cohen and Gates recommend in their study that the university employ a strategy of "mortgages" or "pre-fills" in order to increase minority representation. With this strategy, Cornell would hire qualified minority applicants for positions that would not offically be vacant for 10 to 20 years...
...report also recommends that departments within the Arts and Sciences faculty define vacant positions more loosely in order to increase minority response and to provide greater communication between departments about minority hiring...
...Magnum." The Jamesian restraint of the language -- not "Blam, blam, blam, wood chips glinted in the dusty air," but a dreamlike, almost passive kind of doghouse blasting -- foreshadows subtle stuff. The hero, we sense, is a country boy (the name Duane, and the implication that there is enough vacant acreage behind the doghouse so that stray bullets won't perforate anything important) whose new prosperity (the hot tub) leaves him strangely dissatisfied (the pulsating jets do not soothe him) and struggling to express his feelings (that hogleg Magnum...