Someone has to work the vacated shift.
"As ecologists have pointed out from the start, you take out a target pest, you're likely to have secondary pests coming because that's how ecology works: you vacate one niche, you'll have another niche take its place," she said.
Finally, one afternoon, as Polina prepared to leave work, her sentinel vacated her post and Alec approached, accompanied by his brother, Karl.
During the industry's protracted slump, it has shed two-thirds of its staff, reducing its work force to 36,000, and vacated dozens of plants and offices.
The Scottish titles had their own autonomous board and, working with management in London, vacated their out-dated Victorian office in Glasgow's city centre and decanted to a custom-built newspaper palace on the banks of the Clyde with the most advanced colour printing facilities in Europe.
For the most part, though, the book valuably works over middle ground, the space vacated by both dogmatic religionists and dogmatic atheists.
Building owners are hoping the city will give incentives, such as waiving the city's gross receipts tax for businesses to move back into retrofitted buildings after they are vacated for the construction work.
I imagined my work akin to housekeepers negotiating a recently vacated Led Zeppelin hotel suite.
With the Paralympics due to begin on 7 September, the IPC will work with International Federations to redistribute the 267 slots vacated by the Russians.
But now that the new Council has been elected (two new members, replacing councilmen who vacated their seats early, have already begun work), preparations have gone into hyperdrive.
Morris said Thorpe was ready to step into the role vacated by Gooch: "Graham Thorpe, who has been working with the performances programme and the Lions, will be going as the one-day coach to New Zealand.
