Mr Yeltsin behaved as though Russia were reclaiming a place kept vacant for it at the top table of European powers.
On Saturday Mr Mubarak named Omar Suleiman, his long-serving intelligence chief, vice-president, a position he had kept vacant throughout his 30-year rule.
She was told that I.S. 90 was being kept vacant for at least a year, so KIPP could eventually use the space to expand its school.
The see had been kept vacant since the death of Lanfranc in 1089, during which period the king had confiscated its revenues and pillaged its lands.
The front display windows of the first boutique in Aoyama were often kept vacant while the clothes remained in the back room of the shop.
Mr. Karnilowicz estimated that 5 percent of the city's 212,000 rental units (about 10,600) are kept vacant by landlords who would rather not deal with rent control (others estimate the number is higher, about 25,000 units).
That view was apparent last month after I wrote a column about what some see as the unintended consequences of the city's rent control laws: subsidies for the rich, inadequate protections for the poor, and thousands of rental units kept vacant by frustrated landlords.
At the same time, nearly every surface on an airline seat has to be easily replaceable during the brief interval between landing and takeoff, so that if a passenger spills a glass of red wine the seat won't have to be kept vacant for the following flight: a lost fare.
The first and most important victory for the President came with the confirmation of Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, in a seat that Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, the Republican leader in the Senate, kept vacant for nearly the full final year of Barack Obama's Presidency.
