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Word: absented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began badly. On a balmy June Thursday, eminences from the world of advertising arrived at a Manhattan auditorium for the first round of 1991's Clio Awards, the industry's high-profile, hotly pursued "Oscars." But Clio's tuxedoed officials were oddly absent, as were the tickets that some attendees had paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising The Collapse Of Clio | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...vied for the Baldrige when in fact only 97 had applied, and that the Commerce Department had praised Cadillac's engine, an assertion questioned by Commerce itself. GM also caught flak for several overly flattering paraphrases of a government handout accompanying the award. The 167,000 applicants are now absent from GM's ads, but the corporation stands by everything else and is meeting with the state's attorneys to resolve the dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AWARDS Did GM Add to Its Ads? | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...rape will prevail in court. "Juries don't have a great deal of sympathy for the victim if she's a willing participant up to the nonconsensual sexual intercourse," says Norman Kinne, a prosecutor in Dallas. "They feel that many times the victim has placed herself in the situation." Absent eyewitnesses or broken bones, a case comes down to her word against his, and the mythology of rape rarely lends her the benefit of the doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is It RAPE? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...Notably absent from the list of Ivy honorees was junior netminder Chris Miller, an All-Ivy honorable mention last year. Despite the Crimson's poor 2-4 Ivy record, Miller had the third highest save percentage, .637, in league competition this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Roundup | 5/17/1991 | See Source »

...thing about frats is the people in them," he said. "We have a great mix of people, and the common theme is that we are all looking for this sense of camaraderie often absent at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sigma Phi Epsilon Starts Campus Chapter | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

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