Word: vacant
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...into some tough ethical territory, a sort of tween version of the 2008 critics' darling Wendy and Lucy, which featured Michelle Williams wrestling with the bleak prospect that her beloved dog might have a better life with someone else. Then Friday leads his young owners into an abandoned hotel, vacant but for two adorable stray dogs, and suggests, with a sidewise crook of his fluffy white head, that he'd prefer the Hotel Francis Duke to Chez Scudder anyway...
...Washington Burris Comes In from the Cold Roland Burris, welcome to the U.S. Senate. Democrats backed away from their opposition to embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's pick for the state's vacant seat, announcing that Burris had resolved a paperwork snafu and, barring GOP objections, would be sworn in within days. Senate leaders had attempted to dissuade the governor from naming a new junior Senator, arguing that any appointee would be tainted by Blagojevich's arrest on charges that he conspired to sell or trade the seat for personal gain. Burris, who replaces Obama as the body's lone...
...Times. But the union leader on the other end of the line shouldn’t have been surprised to hear it. A number of influential sources, from politicians to journalists, have already pegged Caroline Kennedy as the front runner for Hilary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacant senate seat...
...real concern is not so much this straw company merger as [Harvard’s] warehousing of all this property,” Mattison said. “A lot of it just sits empty and vacant in the middle of a neighborhood...
...Harvard Business Review has chosen Adi Ignatius, a deputy managing editor at Time Magazine, to be its next editor-in-chief, its publisher announced Tuesday. The post had been vacant since June...