Word: absent
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...enforcement and higher education, seems to be another business that has made particularly noticeable affirmative action strides in recent years. This week, with construction crews out in full force on New England's highways, the sex ratio of flagmen to flagwomen appeared nearly equal. Of course, women were conspicuously absent from construction crews. Now it doesn't seem like it matters much what sex the person is who waves a flag to direct cars around road construction. But it sure appears to make a big difference to some people. A group of men in a Pinto were...
...feared, disliked and little known even by fellow powermongers in the White House. As the Watergate case broke open, he managed to remain in the background. Unlike other former Administration officials, he was never compelled to testify at the televised Ervin hearings. His conversations with President Nixon were conspicuously absent from the transcripts made public by the White House...
This slim volume is Spivack's first publishing effort, written while she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. She has studied with various well-known poets like John Malcolm Brinnin and Robert Lowell, but their influence is remarkably absent in this collection...
...Historians will long debate whether or not the Egyptian armies really won a military victory in that war. It is unlikely, though, that they will dispute the notion that the outcome of the war restored to the Arab world a needed measure of self-esteem that had been absent since the humiliating defeat of 1967 and provided a breakthrough to peace negotiations. Nor will they argue that the war made Egypt's Sadat-who had been judged the indecisive, second-rate successor to the great Gamal Abdel Nasser-the most prestigious leader of the Arab world...
...Progressive Conservatives and 31 left-wing New Democrats voted for the motion. Opposing it were 108 of the 109 Liberals (one was absent because of illness), plus the 15 members of the right-wing Social Credit Party...