Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smith has been absent from school sinceFebruary due to surgery
...papers, he or she can accuse Hughes of trying to cover up his own guilt. He grants no interviews and has written no memoir. Instead of Hughes, Plath's biographers have had to deal with Olwyn, Hughes' cranky older sister, who has served as a combative intermediary for her absent brother. Malcolm gets no closer to the poet than the other Plathian detectives who have stalked him. She is reduced to lurking around the outside of his British home, uninvited...
...form of free expression make a valid, but limited point. When could taking free papers in protest express something that should be protected by the First Amendment? This condition would be met only when taking the paper adds a symbolic value to the protest which would be absent if the paper is not taken...
Against impossible odds, and goaded by the desire to avenge his dead or absent father, a nobody toils heroically to become a star. He learns both to be himself and to merge with his team. His opponents are either Nazi-oid stepfather figures or faceless goons (the Icelandic hockey players in D2 are outfitted like S&M Darth Vaders). If the movie is a sequel and stars one of Martin Sheen's sons (Charlie Sheen in the easy-to-take Major League II, Emilio Estevez in the noisome D2), the hero will go soft until he rediscovers the heart...
...this year, the Administration's internal polls showed that the health-care sales pitch wasn't working. What the President had been saying since September about his reform plan had done as much to confuse the public as inform it. And confusion had only helped his opponents. Thus, largely absent in the new White House lexicon will be references to "universal coverage," "insurance-purchasing alliances" and "employer mandates." In their place, Clinton is using the phrases "guaranteed private insurance," "real insurance reform" and "health benefits guaranteed at work." The reason: the new phrases were test-marketed in public-opinion research...