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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Ben-Gurion, the legendary founder of Israel and the nation's Prime Minister at the time, surveyed a group of photographers who had clamored into his office to record a ceremonial event. Noting that TIME's David Rubinger was absent, Ben-Gurion quipped, "Where's the one with the ginger beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 4, 1988 | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

Hasford had been listed as AWB (absent with books) after checking out 87 volumes and 500 periodicals from the Cal Poly library in two weeks last December. Campus police plan to ask the local district attorney to charge the author with grand theft. Hasford's attorney, Louis Blau, contends that "most of those books were purchased at library sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: 10,000 Books, At 5 cents a Day | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

...ethical guidelines. The report is remarkable for its failure to place the blame where it truly belongs--in the lap of K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Cavanagh sticks to the line that Allison approved the proposed swap late one Friday night without giving it "proper scrutiny." Absent from the report are the crucial facts which rip apart this shallow excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's to Blame? | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...council members, 25 percent of whom were absent, voted down that choice because members did not think the Philadelphia band could attract enough fans to fill the 2500-seat Bright Arena. The council then authorized Leff to contact other acts. Among the other possibilities mentioned at last night's meeting were Chuck Berry and Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: College Rejects Council's Plea for End to Keg Ban | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...different catagories the vote on whether to endorse a complaint against a final club. The council did not approve the measure. The final section of the table--which gave a breakdown of how the 57 men on the council voted--should have read as follows: Yes: 22; No: 27; Absent: 7; Abstain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRECTION: | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

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