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When we as Americans vote, we vote not just for the United States, but for all America--North, Central, South and Caribbean. We vote for those who are permanently absent from our country's priorities, though permanently subject to its policies...
Conspicuously absent from the Central Committee meeting was Yegor Ligachev, the Gorbachev rival who only two weeks ago was named head of a new commission on agriculture. A government spokesman said Ligachev was "on vacation," but that "doesn't mean we shouldn't address the question of agriculture...
...Absent seven players from last year's squad--including five starters--Centenary is trying its best to keep up the winning tradition. After a 2-4 start (including losses to then-fourth-ranked SMU and NAIA leader Midwestern St.) the Gentlemen have swept their last seven contests...
...Bush: he has been calling for some kind of work in exchange for benefits since he served in Congress. He, like Dukakis, supports Senator Daniel Moynihan's welfare-reform bill, which requires most welfare recipients to work in exchange for assistance and mandates child support from the absent parent. The bill also includes a feature that is necessary to reverse the incentive toward single-parent welfare families: it provides subsidies for two-parent families in which the primary breadwinner is unemployed. After languishing for months, a compromise version of the bill was passed by Congress last week...
Everyone knows that hindsight is always more perceptive than foresight, but perception, among other words, seems to be absent from Quayle's vocabulary. Of course, everyone regrets one past act or another, but it just isn't wise to answer a question about integrity and personal ethics with a comment about your early ambitions...