Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Residents probably should have asked Guyton whether Soles of the Most High completed his artistic vision for their block. It didn't. Eleven years later, thousands of used shoes are piled by the sidewalk and hanging in the trees--along with rusty car hoods and tires strewn across a vacant lot and rows and rows of discarded vacuum cleaners, stuffed animals and broken dolls. Heidelberg Street is also festooned in polka dots. "I'm going to polka-dot this whole city," proclaims Guyton, 41, who says the dots commemorate his late grandfather's love of jelly beans...
...plumbing expeditions as necessary to stem revelations of classified and investigative information. Others deride the internal probes as a panicky overreaction by mid-level officials who are making key decisions while the department's top management jobs (Deputy AG, Associate AG and Assistant AG for the criminal division) lie vacant...
...Bunting's English Diner, where Mayor Jim Mathias and three of his predecessors gather early to sort through the day's problems, they like to recall how simple it used to be. Back in the '30s, when their fathers came to build the WPA beach-front barriers, vacant lots were auctioned for $50 apiece. "Anyone who bought land and held onto it made money," says Fish Powell, especially after Highway 50 connected the Eastern Shore to the restless mainland. Now the price of a lot is in the high five figures, as the town's permanent population...
...staff structure would eliminate the position of executive agent, which has been vacant since the departure earlier this year of Kenneth G. Smith, the first and only person to fill this position. A compromise agreement last summer between the College and PBHA established the position and created the board of trustees--consisting of PBHA supporters, students and College representatives--as PBHA's governing body...
...staff structure would eliminate the position of chief operating officer (COO)--a liaison between the University and PBHA--which has been vacant since the May 4 departure of former COO Kenneth G. Smith...