Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...canvassing the neighborhood for a killer. And when they were finished, R. and E. (their real names have not been released because they are minors) would get the rap for the murder of 11-year-old Ryan Harris, whose body had been discovered in the high weeds of a vacant lot, her head smashed with a rock, her mouth stuffed with her panties. There were signs of sexual assault. Police officers had brought R. and E. in for questioning as witnesses, and when the two boys were called back, their stories changed. Under interrogation, they told on each other...
Somewhere in the recesses of director Betty Thomas' slow, vacant farce is a sweet fable about a misfit father and daughter. But parents who think this Doctor Dolittle is for children should be prepared for gags about butt sniffing, dog whizzing, pigeon poop and rodent proctology. Of course, the kids won't be shocked. They're primed to love this stuff. After all, they've been raised on bad attitude...
...gone up in the authorities' bid to turn Shanghai into China's financial capital. Companies that make a large enough investment even get a street named after them--Siemens Street, for example. But walking around Pudong is an eerie experience: at least three-quarters of the office space is vacant. Such is the impatience of Shanghai to become a world-class city: Build it, and they will come...
...first meeting she attended Gaard announced the creation of a women's caucus to both recruit women for vacant council spots and inform those busy with other activities about the resources and opportunities the council can offer...
What does Bill Richardson want? Speculation that Washington?s U.N. ambassador may be promoted to the vacant secretary position at the Department of Energy has mounted in the last two weeks, according to TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Dowell reports that Richardson has suffered at the U.N. from the perception that his diplomatic skills do not match up to his political abilities, and that he was at times left out of the loop by the White House during the Iraq crisis. ?Now there is speculation that he may promoted to a position more suited to the skills of a politician...