Word: absently
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...enabled Tory leader David Cameron, 41, to unite his fractious party. Traditionalists are outraged by his efforts to rebrand the Conservatives as a more caring, green-tinged party. The Tory conference, which starts on Sept. 30 in Blackpool, a resort in northern England, promises the internecine warfare so conspicuously absent at Labour's jamboree...
...Obama campaign has staked a lot on Iowa. "I don't think the national polls will move at all until Iowa, absent some seismic event," says Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. Obama's advisers say he doesn't have to win there, just beat expectations. In 1972, Iowa gave George McGovern a big boost in momentum, even though he finished 13 points behind Edmund Muskie. And Georgia's obscure former Governor went from "Jimmy Who?" to front runner in 1976 on the strength of coming in 9 points behind "Uncommitted...
Still, Clinton holds a commanding lead in South Carolina and probably will continue to do so--absent "an exogenous factor that intervenes to shake things up, a significant mistake or a revelation," says Fowler. The question for Obama: Does he wait for such an eventuality--or make one happen...
...them stepped off their respective flying machines and arrived in foreign lands. Two of them experienced the onslaught of culture, and found themselves in various degrees of disgust. Two of them, in being absent from their homelands, found a new fondness in their hearts towards the art of their adopted environs. Nevertheless, all four of our travelers returned with a wholly new perspective on the world of art, and the art of the world...
Faust will add an element absent from previous Harvard presidential installations—African drumming and a performance by Sangeet, a Harvard College South Asian music group—O’Neill added...