Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...based on intuition rather than solid evidence. One favorite is the so-called empty barrel, or open spaces, hypothesis, which compares the Cambrian organisms to homesteaders on the prairies. The biosphere in which the Cambrian explosion occurred, in other words, was like the American West, a huge tract of vacant property that suddenly opened up for settlement. After the initial land rush subsided, it became more and more difficult for naive newcomers to establish footholds...
Although PR has several advantages in securing minority representation and filling vacant council seats, Shepsle points out that PR can overwhelm voters...
...small undergraduate group, as yet unnamed, opposes a plan by Harvard discussed at last week's City Council meeting to raise the rents of 600 formerly rent-controlled apartments and to rent vacant units only to affiliates of Harvard...
...With two vacant storefronts to fill, those in charge of the Shops by Harvard Yard are taking another look at the mission of the Holyoke Center stores...
...vacant third floor of the building, which houses the Charles Webb furniture showroom on its street level and is located at 4-10 Story St., was formerly the offices of the Architects Collaborative. When fire fighters arrived on the scene Tuesday evening, thick black smoke was billowing, from the third floor windows...