Word: fills
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Leave it to George W. Bush and his fondness for old Republican pros to finally fill his vacancy at defense secretary ... with a former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld...
...been a tough job to fill, what with Dick Cheney and Colin Powell looming over the foreign-policy team. Former Indiana Senator Dan Coats, the early favorite, was thought to be either unwilling or unable to deal with the two heavyweights as equals. Tom Ridge was too moderate. And the nominee himself had been the leading contender for CIA director, not top man at the Pentagon...
...Defense: Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge was ruled out as too moderate; former Indiana Senator Dan Coats didn't wow Bush in a meeting last week; Reagan-era Pentagon aide Paul Wolfowitz is regarded more as policy expert than top-down manager. The Pentagon has proved to be tough to fill as well because it stands to reason that Bush will look first to vice- president Dick Cheney and Powell for advice on military matters...
When he enrolled at the University of Redlands and learned that classes consumed only 14 hours a week, Boies set out to fill the extra time. Although he was married with two children by the end of his sophomore year, he piled on more work (teaching journalism at a nearby mental hospital), then more fun (usually card playing) and more extracurriculars (including, George W. Bush would be surprised to learn, the presidency of the campus Young Republicans). He also added more classes, finishing three years' study in two years. He then took off for law school at Northwestern. James...
...some other division didn't make its numbers, there's going to be trouble," says an executive. "If top people like Logan, [Jeff] Bewkes, [CEO of HBO] or Terry McGuirk [CEO of TBS] throw their hands up and leave, the AOL people won't have a clue how to fill those jobs...