Word: absently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roberts was declared absent without leave from his unit in West Germany on March 2 and declared a deserter and dropped from the Army's rolls on April...
...correction," which makes it sound like a painless, orderly affair. But last week's bloodbath on Wall Street was more aptly dubbed an "October massacre." Turmoil and outright fear shook the financial markets as stampeding hordes of investors got caught up in a mood that had been almost absent during the go-go 1980s: bearishness. Over the course of less than two months, in the worst setback since the bull market began five years ago, the value of U.S. stocks has plunged by nearly half a trillion dollars...
...some of the court's docket and even ordered rearguments on some cases they did hear. "When the vote was 4 to 4, they simply stopped," says Thomas Krattenmaker, associate dean at Georgetown law school, who was a clerk to Justice John Harlan. In 1985, after Powell had been absent nearly three months for treatment of prostate cancer, the court announced eight tie rulings, although it also ordered rearguments in four cases heard in his absence. By last week there were 91 cases on the docket for review this term, with dozens more to be added. In those it chooses...
...says that the CCA has never made the effort to get to know less well-off Cambridge citizens as the independents have. He notes that he has never attended a wake from which Mayor Sullivan was absent. His candidacy is an effort to attract blue collar voters with liberal views away from the conservative independents who have survived on their support...
...provokes resonant questions. Is it right or possible to transplant an individual from one background into another? Are the efforts of schools like Exeter a patronizing way of superimposing bourgeois white values on inner-city blacks? Anson can hardly be faulted for not providing answers; they are all but absent in a nation still sadly rent by racial inequity. The loss of Edmund Perry, as portrayed in this often poignant book, makes the problem seem more intractable than ever...