Word: absently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Absent Gore...
Clark's brand of discipline is often harsh. On a single day in his first year, he threw out 300 students for being tardy or absent and, he said, for disrupting the school. "Leeches and parasites," he calls such pupils. Over the next five years he tossed out hundreds more. Faculty members hostile to $ his vision were dismissed or strongly encouraged to leave. During his six-year tenure some 100 have departed, including a basketball coach who was hustled out by security guards for failing to stand at attention during the singing of the school alma mater. "I expurgated them...
Should doctors use organs and tissue from brain- absent newborns and aborted fetuses to treat otherwise incurable diseases...
...result, Harvard College bars itself from addressing what Radcliffe's most vocal supporters are the first to call its inattention to women's concerns. Radcliffe's nominal existence as a college also excuses other University failings cited by women's activists. Although, for instance, women are notably absent from the University's top posts, Radcliffe's status makes it possible for a female college president to share the podium with Harvard's male leaders at freshmen orientations and Commencements--albeit a female college president without the authority and prestige of men with similar titles...
...apartheid is suppression of an "inferior" race. Have the Afrikaaners been oppressive because there haven't been any legitimate Black leaders willing to negotiate with them? Is Moses comparing the ANC to the PLO or P.W. Botha to Yitzhak Shamir? Such analogies are not only false, but also absent-minded. In similar fashion, Moses writes that Europeans "colonized" the Jews on the "strip of desert," now known as Israel. Europe did not "colonize" Jews, it murdered them. The Jews "Colonized" themselves...