Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work of "fly dumpers," unlicensed truckers who collect filth from affluent , neighborhoods and deposit it in vacant lots in stealthy forays at night...
...that void should ever become vacant, lots of candidates are waiting to fill it. "You can't take the New Kids and make a clone," warns Capitol Industries-EMI president Joe Smith. But Starr and Scott are way ahead of him. Starr's 12-year-old son is opening for the New Kids as part of a trio called the Perfect Gentlemen, whose debut album is titled Rated PG (Senator Helms, take note). We may also look forward to the re-emergence of Tiffany, whose album and merchandising are now being handled by Scott. "We'll try to follow...
Kevorkian, meanwhile, was searching for a place to accomplish the deed. The hotels, vacant office buildings and funeral parlors he approached all turned him down. So he resurrected his 1968 Volkswagen, bought the cot and some clean sheets. Without the aid of any hospital or lab, Kevorkian confirmed an Alzheimer's diagnosis and judged Adkins lucid. Two days later, they drove to a public park that had electrical outlets for campers. "There was no other place I could do it," he says. "My landlord would have thrown...
Only one year before Harvard's upcoming $2.5 billion-plus fundraising campaign is scheduled to kick off, the University's top two administrative positions have suddenly become vacant...
...much, with interest, it will cost to repay. But other factors may also eventually contain the vast damage that has unquestionably been done. (The damage is not that S&Ls have failed; we had too many S&Ls anyway. The damage is in half- built or largely vacant shopping centers and office towers no one wants or needs -- all those resources misdirected when, as always, there was so much that did need doing...