Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girl's father and says she is not even sure who he is. When Katie was two months old, Beers handed her off to Linda Inghilleri, 39, a godmother who became a surrogate parent, though by some reports not much of one. From first grade on, Katie was absent from school much of the time. She spent many days instead doing laundry and shopping. Inghilleri sent her out regularly for candy, takeout food and cigarettes...
...Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has been named the program's producer.) Other names, from Dennis Miller to Billy Crystal, have been floated as possible Letterman successors, though one obvious candidate -- Bob Costas, host of the sprightly talk show Later with Bob Costas, which follows Letterman -- has been surprisingly absent from the speculation. Insiders say Costas, who lives in St. Louis, Missouri, does not want to make the weekday commitment in New York...
Physicists will celebrate because the top is the absent jewel in the crown of the so-called Standard Model, a powerful theoretical synthesis that has reduced a once bewildering zoo of particles to just a few fundamental constituents, including three whimsically named couplets of quarks. Up and down quarks combine to create everyday protons and neutrons, while charm and strange quarks make up more esoteric particles, the kind produced by accelerators and high-energy cosmic rays. In 1977 physicists discovered a fifth quark they dubbed bottom, and they have been looking for its partner, top, ever since. Not finding...
...most prominent of those pardoned was former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who was awaiting trial in January. The President also absolved former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, former Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams and three ex-CIA officials: Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers and Clair George. Conspicuously absent from Bush's list were other Iran-contra defendants, including Richard Secord, deemed by the President to have gained financially from the affair...
...more despised. In the eyes of most Somalis, U.N. aid programs helped sustain the dictatorial government of Mohammed Siad Barre, who was deposed in January 1991. Then, as the country slid into civil war, the U.N. declined to act. As anarchy and starvation accelerated, the U.N. agencies were conspicuously absent...