Word: vacant
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Today's commencement reminds me of how, when I was a kid, we used to play softball in a vacant lot behind our grade school. The worst moment in the whole summer was the last day of vacation as the sun began to set. Slowly but surely people would drift away, leaving the rest crying: "Stick around, guys! One more inning, one more time at bat! We can't break up this team!" We wanted it to stay light forever, so we could keep playing forever. But the sun always went down...
...security forces. The other fatality was 64-year-old Marina Montoya, a former Bogota belle and the sister of a once highly placed Colombian politician; she was executed with six bullets to the head. Her body, clad in expensive underwear beneath a pink sweatsuit, was then dumped in a vacant...
...hurdles. Last year the Senate confirmed only 17 federal district-court judges and none for the appeals courts. This year looks even worse, with only two confirmations thus far. The number of days from nomination to confirmation is at a record high of 183, and 24 seats have been vacant more than 18 months, qualifying them as judicial emergencies...
...situation is urgent, says Procter Hug Jr., chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California and eight other Western states. Hug says that with a third of its 28 seats vacant, the court has had to cancel hearings for about 600 cases this year. Criminal cases take precedence by law, so at both the trial and appellate levels, it is civil cases that have been crowded out. Civil rights cases, shareholder lawsuits, product-liability actions, medical-malpractice claims and so forth are being pushed to the back of the line, however urgent the complaints. Chief Judge...
...toil away in a huge government bureaucracy." Statements like that help explain why a nominee like businessman and Democratic fund raiser Terry McAuliffe withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of Commerce. Even hush-hush high finance isn't a draw: two governorships on the Federal Reserve are vacant. Any takers...