Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Avery and Mead concluded that something which regulates surface tension in the lung must be absent in those babies with hyaline membrane disease. If unregulated, surface tension causes alveoli--the air-carrying sacs of lungs--to collapse, followed by the collapse of the lungs...
...statements that largely restated old grudges. Substantive discussions will come later -- maybe; the opening was devoted to public relations posturing and symbolism. The Arabs and Israelis were there only because Bush and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker had seen to it that they could not afford to be absent. Boycotting the talks would have given the boycotters a black eye in world opinion. Attending allowed them to play to the biggest audience ever...
Peace, however, is not at hand. International conflicts are settled out of necessity and good will, and good will is strikingly absent from this gathering. Fourteen years ago, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made Israelis believe that his attitude toward them had changed by flying to Jerusalem and shaking hands with Israelis, smiling all the time. In contrast, rumors now fly that Syrian President Hafez al-Assad will refuse to shake Shamir's hand, (in Madrid--forget Jerusalem) and such a refusal is unlikely to evoke sympathy from Shamir, who has promised his electorate that he will not cede real estate...
According to Coles, the question of privilege and of relative privilege is a recurring problem on the Harvard landscape. "Smugness and self-importance is not totally absent from the Harvard scene," he says. "It can be found among some of us who point our fingers at other students accusing them of lacking this quality or that quality in the moral or psychological life...
...political institutions are caught in a pre-cultural diversity and gender revolution time warp," Kunin said. "It is noteworthy that the political arena is the one area where women today are so conspicuously absent...