Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hammer- and-sickle flag is lowered over the Kremlin, giving way to Russia's white- blue- and-red banner, and Gorbachev finally steps down as Soviet President. Both might happen momentarily. Meeting Saturday in the Kazakh capital of Alma- Ata, presidents of 11 former Soviet republics -- only Georgia was absent -- signed documents formally creating a Commonwealth of Independent States to succeed the U.S.S.R. and settled some of the last details. For example, they agreed to form a military council to exercise unified control of the armed services and to have Russia take over the Soviet seat on the United Nations...
Like Peninsula, we are concerned about the disintegration of the American family. But its problems have nothing to do with homosexuality. They have to do with teenage mothers, absent fathers, abused children, drugs, alcohol, crime, poverty, divorce, lousy sex education, the breakdown of personal responsibility. We don't see Peninsula devoting 56-page issues to these problems...
...ideas, fresh fortunes and sunny forecasts. But right now the mood in this region 40 miles southeast of San Francisco suggests a name like Gloomy Gulch. Gone are the days when development spread like brush fire across the region and upstart businesses leaped from garages to the FORTUNE 500. Absent are the fuzzy-cheeked genius entrepreneurs, the companies hungry for workers and a city so wealthy it once considered giving back $1 million in tax revenues to its citizens. Says Lawrence Stone, a city councilman in Sunnyvale, which no longer has a surplus, as he recalls the glory days: "Instant...
Moreover, The Crimson's coverage of the controversy has been singularly one-sided: Objective accounts of the Peninsula's contents are curiously absent, as are statements in support of the magazine to counter liberal attacks...
Vocal public disapproval with Duke, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who is now on the verge of winning Louisiana's Governorship, has been notably absent across the country. Only in Louisiana have voters expressed their discontent. Elsewhere, Duke's remarkable rise in the polls has turned few heads...