Word: vacant
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...meantime, the house is still vacant and very much for sale. At the April 18 meeting in which the Pi Etas voted the Sigma Chis out of the corporation, the board discussed an offer of $3.3 million from noted philanthropist Gregory Carr. He proposed to use the historic building as a headquarters for his human rights education foundation. Soon, though, he realized that the site was not big enough to suit his purposes, so the building was again up for grabs...
...bats started making their home under the red roof during Khmer Rouge rule, when the museum was vacant. By the early 1990s, curators were desperate to evict them as droppings?up to a ton a month?coated the artifacts below and threatened to collapse the second-floor ceiling. A putrid stench distracted gallery patrons, and on one memorable occasion, bat lice in the air elicited an allergic reaction from a visiting Thai princess...
Faust, who has publicly stated her desire for a female candidate to fill both the GSE post and the still-vacant Divinity School deanship, described the appointment of Lagemeann as “brilliant...
Black Ink, a quirky new gift store on Brattle Street between the Greenhouse Coffee Shop and Cardullo’s, opened quietly last month in the space left vacant when Wordsworth Gifts closed this winter...
...crucial post of Food and Drug commissioner--vacant ever since President Bush took office more than a year ago--finally seemed to have found its man. He was Alastair J.J. Wood, a respected drug-safety expert at Vanderbilt University. Wood, who had been interviewed several times by the White House and told he was the front runner for the job, had the support of usually querulous public interest groups, as well as Senate health-care leaders from both parties. It seemed an easy confirmation...