Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the union's success in changing public attitudes, PUMA's efforts to fill the vacuum of services for women "in the life" magnify the group's importance for beyond the small number of active members, and raise possible solutions to long-ignored problems. One soft-spoken, gray-haired guest at the Halloween party said, "I'am a customer and I'm here because they provide a service, and I support them...
Instead of participating in exciting dialogue in tense situations, Vaughn must compensate for the absence of a supporting cast by weaving everything they would say into his own speech. As if the brevity of most scenes were not annoying enough, this constant need to fill an obvious vacuum proves unbearably frustrating...
...gradually lost control over the course of political events. In the tough, sectarian enclaves of Belfast or Londonderry, sensitive registers of the political situation, these voices have an air of irrelevance. After years of constitutional paralysis, the working class has little faith left in its civic institutions. In the vacuum, paramilitary power has gained...
...relinquish his personal king dom. But he had already sown the seeds of the horrors that Forbath later witnessed following Congolese independence in 1960. Instead of preparing its onetime col ony for self-rule, Belgium simply cut the Congo loose on six months' notice. The Belgian departure left a vacuum that ri val factions rushed to fill, touching off further bloodbaths...
...despite advertising promises to the contrary. The Clarke-Kubrick collaboration was fully described in Lost Worlds of 2001. As a result, the only attention paid to the landmark film comes in the form of Clarke's slightly defensive explanation of how astronaut David Bowman managed to survive in a vacuum for several seconds while re-entering his space ship. Clarke cites experiments on animals in vacuum chambers in an effort to disprove the old sci-fi truism that an astronaut would explode instantly in the vacuum of space. The book scintillates with such occasional tidbits, but otherwise the pickings...