Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand, in this real estate climate, why you would entertain a moratorium," said Hickey. "We are going to be faced with vacant buildings around the Alewife area. This is the gateway of your city...
...planet's species late in the Triassic period. It could have been caused by the impact of a massive asteroid or comet, perhaps, or by dramatic climate changes triggered as Pangaea separated to form distinct continents. As other animals disappeared wholesale, the dinosaurs evolved rapidly to fill vacant ecological niches. Says Sereno: "It's very difficult to argue that the dinosaurs had something the others didn't. Instead of evolving because they were better, maybe they evolved because there was a sudden vacuum." For whatever reason, the early mammals, although they arose at about the same period, remained bit players...
...comet smashed into the earth, throwing up a planetwide pall of dust. The sun was blotted out for months, killing most vegetation and starving the dinosaurs. The mammals, which had blown a chance during the last mass extinction, 150 million years earlier, rushed in to take over the suddenly vacant ecological slots...
...think something is deeply sick in the national soul, then the play, for all its philosophical incoherence and melodrama (about a Vietnamese immigrant seeking her ex-G.I. father), may speak to you. If you live in the world most Americans inhabit, you will probably find it windy, vacant, awkwardly staged and ineptly acted, except by the superb Debra Monk as the girl's sardonic aunt...
Baseball is indeed facing a grave crisis, but it is primarily political and not economic in nature -- a question of governance and power relations rather than the law of supply and demand run amuck. The vacant office of the commissioner of baseball symbolizes the void at the center of the game; the post has remained unfilled since a majority of owners forced the resignation of Fay Vincent last September. Vincent's so-called sins included his prickly independence and his determination to use his powers to act "in the best interests of baseball" and his aborted attempt to limit...