Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Absent politics, which is to say, in purely economic terms, the debate focuses on two issues: Should the surplus be returned to taxpayers, who put up the money in the first place? Or should it be used to pay down the $5.6 trillion national debt and shore up wobbly Medicare and Social Security funds? "This is a wonderful problem for the U.S. to have," says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics...
...been clearly established that China had actually stolen comprehensive design information, and the only substantive charge against Lee was that he had breached security procedures by downloading sensitive information from a secure computer system onto an unsecured one ?- an action his lawyers argue should be understood as an absent-minded oversight by a man whose job involved downloading large bodies of data, and who worked on a computer system recently divided into a secured and an unsecured sector. Such breaches of procedure might ordinarily lead to a stern warning or even dismissal, but the Cox Report?s allegations that...
...including his wife, guitarist and backup singer Patti Scialfa--are back, older, wiser and, in virtually every case, better. Max Weinberg's chops have improved considerably during his stint as band leader for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Clarence Clemons' sax work displays nuances and noodlings that were absent from his bombastic style in the '70s and '80s. And the return of Bruce's original sidekick from his Asbury Park bar-band days, guitarist Steve Van Zandt--now a co-star on the acclaimed HBO series The Sopranos--adds a powerful but intangible measure of heart and soul...
...says if the Square's business balance differs from that of other college neighborhoods, with McDonald's and 24-hour diners conspicuously absent, this difference only matches the uniqueness of Harvard's location and student population...
Meanwhile, NATO is getting ready to pass the baton from the flyboys to the doughboys, building up its troop presence in Macedonia and preparing to divide Kosovo into five sectors, with the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy and France each overseeing a sector. Absent: the Russians, who got Milosevic and NATO to shake hands and who have have some much-needed credibility as babysitters of Kosovo's Serb minority (having not just finished bombing them). But NATO doesn't want any partners -- chief Javier Solana insisted on "Fox News Sunday," that "there will be one commander" of the postwar force...