Word: voided
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Whereas she originally thought Yeats’ preoccupation with ritual and superstition a bit “weird,” Foster convinced her that his behavior was a reaction to the void that the Anglo-Irish felt in the face of the superstitions and beliefs held by the Catholic majority...
...former globetrotting executives, international aid work fills the void that can come with retirement. For example, Gillette executive Mark Cutler, 54, had lived in five countries worldwide, becoming V.P. of Gillette's international group before he took early retirement last year. Suddenly the workaholic had nothing but free time. "It was very hard to walk away from Gillette at that age--[I didn't want] to replace those intellectual challenges with golf," he says. He tried traveling, and he puttered around his Longmeadow, Mass., home, but nothing gave him the thrill of international work. Having done some Gillette work...
...void in oversight at PBH created by her promotion will make way for the first re-examination of public service oversight since 1996, when concerns about inefficiency prompted then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 to appoint Kidd to a new position charged with supervising the student group...
...Kansas State University showed that the percentage of students seeking help for relationship problems rose from 34% in 1989 to 60% in 2001. School counselors say courses like Pearson's--as well as more than half a dozen national relationship-curriculum programs in high schools--are filling a void. They offer healthy models of love for children of divorce and a middle ground in the wake of the culture wars that polarized sex education in the 1980s, with emotionless biology classes at one end and preachy abstinence lectures at the other...
...Hagamen, a freshman last year, is taking this year off to train with the U.S. Fencing Squad as an Olympic hopeful. Hagamen’s departure leaves Harvard with a void to fill...