Obama's desk still looked nearly vacant.
Malone, then looking across the floor of a nearly vacant gymnasium, shook his head.
Its urban core was nearly vacant after dark, with few residents and even fewer restaurants and attractions.
The Tyco plant, in Clark, N.J., is already nearly vacant, as 361 workers were laid off in October.
Of course, if the Chargers dispatched everyone whose playoff performances did not measure up to their regular-season standards, the locker room would be nearly vacant.
The site is now occupied by the Times Square Brewery and a nearly vacant office building, both of which would be demolished.
He sat slumped in a chair in his nearly vacant dressing room at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in Manhattan.
"By now, we were also hoping for a walk-in lunch trade," said Mr. Thompson, surveying his nearly vacant establishment on a Friday afternoon.
Abandoned prewar skyscrapers, immense dilapidated factories, downtown streets devoid of people, entire neighborhoods nearly vacant and returning to brush: all provide epic vistas of blight, warning about the fickle nature of capitalism.
For a brief moment he does not respond to the question, rather choosing to stare blankly at the dull ceiling tiles of the now nearly vacant Bolton Wanderers training ground.
The federal Department of Justice says the Obama administration wants to buy a nearly vacant prison in northwestern Illinois even if Guant?mo Bay detainees are not transferred there, a spokesman for Representative Donald Manzullo, Republican of Illinois, said Thursday.
