Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McClellan, editor in chief of Flying magazine, agrees. "Jessica's flight is the kind of thing that, absent media coverage, would never have happened," he says. So-called flying records by youngsters, he maintains, are a bogus concept. "We've intentionally ignored attempts like this here at Flying because we didn't want to promote the activity. It has no validity from an aviation sense; the pilot in reality is the certified pilot." The FAA regulations that allow children "to fly" with a certified pilot at the other controls are intended to facilitate teaching, not to encourage stunts. In what...
...music that currently forms the show's backbone was entirely absent at first. Then the three founders asked some musicians to improvise accompaniment and were shocked at the new-wave-ish response...
...most significant difference is that one very dangerous group is absent--there are no ATF agents on the scene...
Since the freemen aren't wanted on firearm charges, the ATF is conspicuously absent. Those agents who actually fired the guns and made the worst of the decisions at Ruby Ridge and Waco aren't there to force violence with their rash actions...
...while their peers from such distant sites as Boston University and Tufts came to Cambridge to watch the game, Harvard students were notably absent from such public viewing spots...