Word: vacant
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Other schools, instead of laying off employees, are opting not to fill vacant, non-essential posts...
...Committee approved the tentative plan to develop tennis courts and playing fields on the vacant land on North Harvard Street south of the Business School…The plan involves the building of between 12 and 16 tennis courts, and the grading and seeding of six or seven acres of athletic fields...
...rest. Distributed by Signal-Park USA of Tempe, Ariz., the new system tells frantic business travelers exactly where the spots are. Electronic signs announce the available spaces in each row. As you're driving by, just watch for the brightly lighted LED--a green arrow if the spot is vacant, a red X if not. The secret is a sensor that detects occupancy. Used in parking lots from Barcelona to Seoul, Smart Park is now a welcome addition to lots at Baltimore-Washington International and Jacksonville International airports. Watch for more...
...Friday fading and the light softening, it felt like we were speeding through Old Testament lands: shepherd boys guided flocks of goats over rocky slopes looking for feed; donkeys shuffled along paths with firewood roped to their backs; fields were worked with wooden implements; cloaked figures strode alone across vacant desert stretches miles from anywhere. All that broke the scene was a B-52 trail piercing the clouds far above...
...equivalent of using work study to subsidize universities. While there is no evidence of this type of abuse at Harvard, we hope that students participating in work study will be able to take jobs that benefit the communities they live in, as opposed to filling the positions universities find vacant...