Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country normally depict carjackers, kidnappers and other scruffy lawbreakers on the lam. But these days the flyers might just as well feature distinguished men and women in long dark robes beneath the headline HELP WANTED. As of this week, 100 seats on the 844-person federal bench are vacant. Case loads are creeping out of control, and sitting judges are crying for help...
...June 1, little over a week from today, Ted A. Mayer will fill the now-vacant chair of the head of Harvard Dining Services...
...staff structure would eliminate the position of chief operating officer, a liaison between the University and PBHA, which has been vacant since the departure of Kenneth G. Smith last week...
...work Reno is largely isolated from astute political advice, heading a department where several top jobs, including Assistant Attorney General in charge of criminal investigations, have long been vacant. Especially since the departure several weeks ago of Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, Reno has had no one who is sensitive to vibrations beyond the conference rooms at Justice. For guidance she relies on twice-weekly meetings with Justice Department lawyers who bristle at suggestions they would not pursue an investigation wherever it leads...
...transformation. Operating with a paid staff of just five and an annual budget of $400,000, only 20% of it from government sources, Sister Carol's troops have herded dealers off corners, used amateur detectives to rat out nuisance bars, covered graffiti with murals and planted gardens in vacant lots. Hundreds of volunteers have made that possible...