Word: vacant
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...renovation of the Hasty Pudding building, parts of Apley Court and Claverly Hall will go vacant next year. According to College Housing Officer Sue Watts, students from Adams and Lowell House living in Claverly will be redistributed to DeWolfe, and other Lowell students will be moved to the part of Apley Court that does not face the construction...
...When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose among the church teachings they wish to follow and whom the Pope disdains, would return to their pews on Sundays. Enlightened views on contraception, stem-cell research, sexual discrimination and abortion could be accepted...
Feldstein’s experience in academia and his relationship with current administration officials have led many to speculate that when the seat of the Fed chair is vacant next January, President Bush will turn to Martin Feldstein to head the nation’s central bank...
...five cabinet positions left vacant in Tuesday's swearing in of a new Iraqi cabinet - and the decision by Sunni vice president Ghazi al-Yawer to boycott the ceremony - suggest that democracy and civil war are not mutually exclusive in Iraq. To be sure, the cabinet of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari- the first government chosen by Iraqis themselves in a half-century-is an historic milestone. It is difficult to envisage circumstances in which Iraqis would be prepared to surrender their hard-earned right to choose their leaders. Unfortunately, democracy has not resolved the ethnic conflict among them, which...
...issue is really not one of principle, but of simple fairness. Having gone out of their way to obstruct in unprecedented fashion President Clinton’s judicial nominations in committee for eight years, Republicans are now determined to fill many of the judicial slots thus kept vacant with their own nominees. If allowing an up or down vote of the full Senate on judicial nominees is the time-honored rule, why is systematic obstruction within committee any more democratic than filibustering a nominee on the floor...