Word: absent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days ago the Chowder and Marching Club, the Republican social and study group, met a little later for one of their discussion breakfasts, and Pollster Louis Harris was the guest. Nixon was absent, and in that cloistered environment the men were not so hesitant. They asked two basic questions: "Could the country come together under Ford?" Yes, said Harris. There would be a great honeymoon period. "If Nixon were impeached and convicted before next November," one man asked, "would a Ford endorsement help Republicans up for re-election?" Well, said Harris, it would be more effective than Nixon...
...alcoholic employee is absent 2½ times as often as a nonalcoholic. Indeed, he is partially absent even when he is working, often demonstrating much less efficiency than his nonalcoholic colleagues. If he is fired, the investment that the company has put into his training is lost altogether. "The company of any size that says it does not have an alcohol problem is kidding itself," says Ray Kelly, an Illinois state mental health official. In any typical group of workers, 3% to 4% are likely to be disruptive drinkers...
BARRAGE of advertising notwithstanding, neither of the Bach Society's two soloists appeared last Saturday night. Both Cambridge-born basso Justino Diaz and pianist Tedd Joselson were absent from the Sanders stage; their loss and the identity of their replacements was announced in the inaudible mumble characteristic of concert-hall speeches...
...December ruling, which the National Gay Task Force called an "instant cure," came after intense lobbying by homosexual groups and endorsement of the change by all the A.P.A.'s 68 district branches. In a statement accompanying the announcement of their vote (13 for change; two abstentions and four absent), the trustees declared that many homosexuals show no signs of psychopathology, are satisfied with their sexual preferences, and can function effectively in society. It therefore seemed inappropriate to call them "sick." Those who are troubled by their homosexuality, the board said, would henceforth be described as suffering from a "sexual...
...World War II, in the sixties--when young people began to question, and say, "I want to do what I want to do, what I like to do." Well, that caught on in a way [laughs]--strangely enough. And so you got the young auto workers--young auto workers--absent on Mondays or Fridays: "Fuck it, doing all that stuff!" And of course, Lordstown is the great example. And the older guys, their fathers, the Depression people, said, "You got to," 'cause they never question. So they started thinking, as they're about to retire, "That's shit...