Word: absentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deplored the heavy loss of life, but he declined to single out Israel for striking what had obviously turned out to be civilian targets. "The overriding consideration," the President said, "is not to condemn Israel at this point for retaliation, but just to say that if the provocations were absent then the retaliation would have been unnecessary...
...Boston area, PIRG chapters exist at Tufts, The University of Massachusetts, Boston College, Brandeis, Simmons and others. Amherst, Smith and Mt. Holyoke have started them recently. Harvard, which many of us thought was a leader in things like this, has been conspicuously absent for over five years. A PIRG serves student's interests in several ways: first, it inv lves students in research and lobbying on environmental, consumer and other progressive issues. Students determine what issues to work on. And, a PIRG does local research projects which benefit students, such as comparing the services of local banks...
Other sources in the department confirm that Vellucci was frequently absent from the office, but do not know whether the absences were legitimate. The mayor frequently signed out for the day to attend to city business--especially duties attached to the Cambridge School Committee, of which he is chairman--but the time sheets that record each employee's comings and goings are not open to the public without the employee's consent...
...saying that he never went to work, just that he took unauthorized time off," he says. The question of how much unauthorized time Vellucci took is a difficult one--he says only that "sources indicate it happened fairly often." Unfortunately, the fact that Vellucci was frequently absent from the office does not prove much, for without access to the time sheets it is almost impossible to know whether any of the absences were authorized. And if, as Kindleberger implies, Vellucci could alter the time sheets after the fact, to "cover his ass," it may never be possible to answer...
Moynihan's Eliza commands the action because of the connections she suggests; Andrew Agush claims the stage as Higgins precisely because he has forged no links. Agush's absent-minded professor moves entirely in a world of his own making. Fixed on the idea rather than the person who's talking, his tongue whetting his lips and his eyes twitching, Agush's Higgins can only understand Eliza's predicament once it is placed in his own scheme of things. "Take your hands out of your pockets, Henry," his mother scolds and Higgins obeys. But a moment later the hands...