Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could it have been otherwise when a black man stood accused of cutting the throats of two white people in a city that exploded just 3 1/2 years ago after four white cops who beat Rodney King were set free by a jury from which blacks were conspicuously absent? Few would disagree with Thelma Golden, curator of a controversial 1994 exhibition on black males in contemporary culture, that "if Nicole had been black, this case would have been a cover on Jet magazine [the black newsweekly] and not much more...
...James Geary. Hours before the explosion, a blast more than five times as powerful as the one that levelled Hiroshima, the French seized another Greenpeace vessel, the fourth since the tests began last month at the Mururoa Atoll. The strong international protests that marked the first test were also absent this time, with Japan, Russia, the United States and the European Commission merely expressing "regret." In Papeete, the site of fierce rioting after the earlier test, the streets were calm. France restated its intention to sign a nuclear test ban treaty when its tests are completed...
...Likud believe they can rewrite the rules allowing Israeli forces to go wherever they want. As for Arafat, he continues to make the Likud's job vastly easier with his inflammatory rhetoric to his own people. He continues to call for jihad, for the retaking of Jerusalem. Utterly absent is a new vocabulary aimed at creating a different image of the Israelis for young Palestinians. This is perhaps the most troubling aspect of his recent behavior...
...Notably absent from the G.O.P. plan are full details on just how it would carve out its $270 billion in expected savings, the amount the party must find to meet its goals of both balancing the budget and providing a $245 billion tax cut. Clinton, who promises to veto the plan, says he could stabilize Medicare's finances with cuts of less than half that size. Clinton's strategy is to convince voters the Republicans are robbing Medicare to nurture the well-off with...
...that the American home has been, often as not, a nuthouse. And that early, massive exposure to eccentricity can be the best possible preparation for the life that follows: what does not make us completely crazy makes us strong. Or at least tolerant and flexible, qualities that are largely absent from our book of virtues these days...