Next season the New York Philharmonic will have a rare 12 openings, or roughly 12 percent of its instrumental work force, thanks to a confluence of retirements, departures for better jobs and long-unfilled positions.
October details included a useful 0.4percentt rise in shipments and a 0.7percentt jump in unfilled orders that ended a long run of contraction for this reading.
He consolidated three police districts, combined the police and fire headquarters, and reduced police spending by $67 million — mostly, his aides say, by removing more than 1,300 department jobs that had long gone unfilled but were left in city budgets only to be held up as savings on paper.
The number-three job at the computer giant may remain unfilled.Xerox, a heavily indebted photocopier company, settled a long-running dispute with America's Securities and Exchange Commission over irregular accounting for leased products.
FACED with years of financial woes, bound by a long-disputed property tax cap and a strained relationship with its state representative, the city of New Rochelle would have to lay off 16 firefighters and leave 18 vacancies on the police force unfilled under its proposed 2003 budget.
The servers are easygoing, approachable and there when you need them; rarely does a glass stay unfilled for long.
God forbid that there would ever be an unanswered question, an unmet need, an unfilled silence.
