Word: absconding
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...qualified professionals, including teachers. But while it does that, the U.S., and its international partners, can help expedite the process by launching an international scholarship program. Not just to the U.S., as the Fulbright program does, but around the world. Yes, there is a possibility that scholarship students will abscond or seek asylum - the program will have to take those risks into account. But every year donors will be able to quantify the money spent on education and, in a generation or less, not only Afghanistan but the U.S. will begin to reap the rewards...
...truant. The point of his exercise is not to waste the day but to spend it wisely. Or wise-guyly. So he will spring his best girl (Mia Sara) from school. He will get his best friend (Alan Ruck, who is lovely as a boy struggling for security) to abscond with the family Ferrari so they can tool about in style. They will talk their way into a chic restaurant, enliven an ethnic parade and, at every point, avoid the forces of propriety. Chief among these are Ferris' sister (Jennifer Grey), who just hates the way he gets away with...
...related to student life and house life, respectively,” declared SAC Chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09 in an e-mail to the UC earlier this week. “Not having voting members and not taking votes masks that responsibility by incentivizing individuals to abscond from their duties in the interest of allowing the ‘consensus’ to move forward...
...Yale, instead of having college administrators and Harvard police officers throughout the crowd at this year’s tailgate—as seemed to be the case last year at Yale—Boston police have proposed not allowing kegs at all. They seem to be trying to abscond themselves of all liability in the case that a drinking-related tragedy does occur...
...approached adulthood, my leisurely reading material progressed to Cosmopolitan and Glamour. Each month, the covers of both magazines are dominated by headlines relating to sex. Often, I have wished for a sex filter so I could abscond from the latest kama sutra special, from the array of sexual positions and sex-infiltrated list of ways to satisfy...