Word: absented
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...youngsters in families with a history of high cholesterol or heart disease will miss as many as 50% of children with a serious cholesterol problem. Among the reasons: parents are often unaware of their own cholesterol level, and many children live in homes where either the parents are absent or where parents and even grandparents are so young that heart disease is not yet evident...
...Absent from the great thanksgiving will be the voices of the 5.5 million American children under 12 who regularly skip meals, a figure amounting to one-eighth of the country's child population. The voices of the homeless, numbering between 350,000 and 3 million nationwide, will also be unheard...
...Cabinet disputes, but also because his advisers often had to rely on the President's body language as a code for intentions Reagan refused to articulate. The supporting cast speaks candidly in these pages. Jeane Kirkpatrick recalls an agonizing conflict over policy toward Nicaragua, and Reagan's role: "Just absent. Just not there...
With only six of the usual seven golfers teeing off--freshman Lou Body, who is number one or two on the team, was absent--the Crimson were only able to drop a single low score. Although Dave Miller finished second with a 75, the wide range of Crimson scores allowed the steadier Amherst squad to prevail...
...fall (seniors) probably don't want it in sufficient numbers. The sophomores who probably want it aren't supposed to--they're supposed to want to be integrated into the houses and preserve the vigor of house life. (How the administrative ideal of a house with 30 to 50 absent seniors is supposed to be vigorous is left unsaid...