Word: absented
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...understand why the United States government would insist that I be absent before its soldiers arrive." CHARLES TAYLOR, president of Liberia, claiming he won't leave his country until peacekeepers intervene to prevent violence between warring factions; President Bush has asserted that Taylor's departure would be a prerequisite for U.S. troop deployment...
...contrary, it can be positively noble in intent and execution. Are we really to say that it was a mistake for the U.S. to intervene in Bosnia and Kosovo (where there was about as much of a direct threat to American interests as there is in Liberia) when, absent such intervention, the wars of the Yugoslav succession could be raging still...
...instance, O’Connor insisted that transparent opportunity for minorities was a compelling reason to continue affirmative action in a breeding-ground for future leaders like Michigan Law—a rationale entirely absent from Powell’s 1978 ruling...
...address what would happen to the guards absent their positions. And Marilyn D. Touborg, director of communications for Harvard’s Office of Human Resources, declined to comment on whether security guards that opt to continue at the University will be forced to switch jobs...
...Kosberg, heterosexual men (which would undoubtedly include fathers, at-home or otherwise) are routinely overlooked in social work literature. Of the thousands of articles, advertisements and book reviews culled by Kosberg over ten years, half the males represented in the study were gay, while the rest were divided among absent fathers, abusers, prisoners, AIDS victims and the homeless...