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Why did Chief Guerra and Ojeda take over six months to fill a vacant position? This is poor management, and a waste of taxpayer resources and should be unacceptable.

Christopher Steele

We don't intend to have these positions vacant for any significant period of time.

Paul Maryniak

We are going to make known to the governor's office that we have buildings, square footage and vacant land at Sawyer that could be available to help the residents and businesses displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Steve Powers

Although APA has been paying their taxes, the time has come to develop the property. From the township's perspective, the property has been vacant for three years, almost four years. The developer has a positive plan for the township. It should be a very desirable commercial strip.

Chris Pianese

The base was going to be vacant. Sometimes you've got to take chances. I encourage these guys to do that. He kind of hesitated for a second, but that was a big play at that time. We didn't do the little things well tonight, but that's why we're here, to work on the little things.

Joe Mikulik

Too many buildings around here are vacant.

Mark Price

For years, Central Park really wasn't a park. It was called the Public Square and was more of an overgrown vacant lot.

Frank Boyett

We gutted the space in anticipation of the theater. Really it was a timing issue for us. That's why it was left vacant.

Rob Finlay

The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant.

James Aldridge

That's why that corner has remained vacant for so long.

Scott Dungan

Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.

Mary Alexander

You know those sexy pinup posters people put up in their bedrooms? I always saw them as being kind of silly and vacant.

John Hughes

Some of the area's vacant lots and homes that have been run down have been replaced by housing with no parking, purposely.

Justin Jones

We'll move into a vacant fraternity house, but it will be taken next semester, so we'll be looking for a new house.

Leslie Jensen

When we went to talk to those families, we found out that one of the families was originally from Herrin, so we were able to quickly place them in one of our vacant homes in Herrin. Our agency covers 24 counties, and if we don't have a house available, we can still help a family by making referrals.

Sharon Hess

The final few vacant seats are filling quickly, but there are still a couple opportunities for suitably experienced and funded drivers.

Marion Barnaby

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- 'Rubbish may be shot here.'

Ambrose Bierce

Our responsibility is to see they are in safe, affordable housing, especially if we have vacant units at other sites that need to be leased. That's not to say none of them will get a voucher. But they're not automatically entitled to it.

George William Russell

Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

William Cowper

We'll try to do what we can, when we can, and hopefully we can do site work this month and drainage. We recently entered into a short agreement with the CRA that will allow us to start demolition on site when they are vacant. Hopefully, we're still in a position to be under construction in March. We're working on the plans now.

Richard Hasko

I don't doubt that Bush probably believes most of his own rhetoric (even he couldn't possibly believe it all) and somewhere in the dark recesses of the vacant space left behind after he sold his soul to the devil…he probably believes that ultimately, his intentions are good. He'd be wrong of course…but, he must be used to that by now .

Jules Carlysle

Residential properties have been sitting there vacant for quite some time. Since (home) prices are so high, people are maximizing everything.

Susan Miller

We will keep our newspaper office downtown, ... In essence the back half of our building is going to be empty. We're still looking at the various options for the best utilization of our soon-to-be-vacant manufacturing space.

Robert Stafford

A lot of the easy stuff, most of the large tracts, have been developed in the township. That leaves us with some smaller parcels, difficult pieces that may be complicated by physical features like difficult topography or vacant buildings and the environmental concerns that go along with them.

Jennifer Frey

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

Jimmy Breslin

There's been a number of fires along this road at vacant mobile homes. Thank God no one has been hurt or worse.

Nancy Tissue

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .

Rebecca Harding Davis

People are not having trouble filling vacancies. Anything that is vacant is spoken for.

Mark Brooks

Scott found a Superfund site vacant for many years and not on the tax rolls. It matched all our criteria. It's close to transmission lines and highways.

Daniel Donovan

Right now the department claims it has 1,863 filled positions, but they probably have about 120 positions and more that are vacant, that need to be filled. This has had an impact on every aspect of the system. Child welfare, unlike other types of services can't be done by automated machine. You can't call a 1-800 number; it's very labor intensive.

Linda Heisner

At the time of the press release, there were 20 vacant positions and 14 early retirements [in place]. That's how we arrived at the 30 positions. We are hoping to bring that number down.

Maren Daley

On the first night as fire chief, there was a fire up on Laurel Boulevard, the 800 block. It was a vacant home. Somebody said it was an arson.

Todd March

There's a little vacant field right across from the Masonic Temple.

Jimmy Mann

We looked at every vacant site the state could access.

Stephanie Aveiro

If there was a home on every vacant lot, we wouldn't be able to service them all until at least 2009. We didn't expect 7,300 building permits and people coming in droves.

Connie Barron

It's been vacant for a number of years now and not been used for a number of years. We've done a fairly extensive evaluation of the building, and it's not appropriate to turn it into additional offices or rooms or a community center.

Charles Herndon

Even though the storefronts looked vacant, there was a lot of work happening inside, ... Seeing that, we realized this place has a lot of potential.

Rick Hoffman

The overall picture in September is one of negligible decline in manufacturing activity. Production registered significant growth, with nine industries reporting greater output. Deliveries of commodities were somewhat slower. However, commodities appear to be in ample supply as once again the short supply list is vacant.

Norbert J. Ore

There really aren't a lot of jobs. You'll never find a trade magazine that says what's open. A lot of the jobs are filled the moment they become vacant.

Jim Hofher

We're very pleased to announce we have identified a spot. It's a vacant facility near the Pier One area. We will be inviting the groups that have been staying with the churches to come to this safe, secure place to sleep. It's an evening program.

Stephanie Aveiro

We chose this site in the first place because vacant property next to the canal is very rare.

Scott Harelson

Superstition Vistas sits out there vacant, not because there aren't buyers for it, but because we can't plan it. We don't have the money. Our inability to plan the land has caused development to leap over it. That's not supposed to happen.

Mark Winkleman

Some of these locations have a very finite window of availability. Sometimes it will stand vacant for a while and turn into something else.

Mark Dixon

I am sure citizens have been puzzled for years as to why this large parcel in the center of Phoenix remained vacant. I am pleased that the Land Department was finally able to put this property to productive use. The aggressive bidding showed that marketplace was anxious to develop this state trust land.

Mark Winkleman

It's not like downtown is doing horrible but everything around us is doing great. I mean, they're vacant in Centerville and Beavercreek and other places and north of town at the same level we're vacant. So it's a regional problem, it's not just downtown.

Maureen Pero

Since then his chair has been vacant, with the exception of three or four casual visits, mostly on holidays.

Horace Engdahl

I was afraid Marshall would jump in. But in retrospect we would love to be involved in it (the park). We have our graduate college next to it. And we're talking with Dow -- if I haven't screwed it up -- about a vacant parcel of ground in the park.

Menis Ketchum

As long as it's vacant, at least it's quiet. You don't have to worry about it.

Theodora Brock

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen Goodman

Our objective is to ensure the building is occupied -- that it just doesn't sit vacant.

Ron Mosby

These are only for properties that have been vacant for six months or more.

Jean Dellios

This is one position which was vacant.

Lee Sterrey

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Neil Hamilton

HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits. Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps -- 'Hypochondriasis.' It meant The Dumps. Bogul S. Purvy.

Ambrose Bierce

A number of evacuees have been brought to Camp Grayling and other military installations downstate, ... We are going to make known to the governor's office that we have buildings, square footage and vacant land at Sawyer that could be available to help the residents and businesses displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Steve Powers

We haven't been able to execute the contracts, ... There are rooms sitting vacant right now.

Patrick Quinn

You have this vacant land, but it's such a surprise in the city. It's unexpected and magical.

Kristine Greiber

Here in Omaha, if there are business people that have homes that are vacant and could work with us, that would be a big boost. And I think if we do this across the country, if there are 50 to 100,000 people that are homeless, we can shelter them across the United States.

Frank Brown

The NPA is very understaffed and many of their posts are vacant. And that is a problem because we would hate to see their resources stretched. If the government intends on pursuing this policy then obviously resources must be made available, extra staff recruited and an extra budget be allocated for this purpose.

Sheila Camerer

I accepted the Ministry of Finance's offer to take up the long-vacant post on Wednesday.

Michael Chang

We're going to be clearing lots, and helping add value to new homes by planting flowers and vegetables in the adjacent vacant lots.

Erica Karfonta

We carry on looking for housing opportunities for the evacuees along with the local housing authority, like vacant houses and apartments, mobile homes. We try to match the needs with the resources, with a family-by-family approach.

Ed Conley

There are a lot of vacant properties that are dumping grounds.

Ed Spears