Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judge Robert Merhige, 57, thought that previous U.S. Supreme Court decisions meant that "private consensual sex acts between adults are matters, absent evidence that they are harmful, in which the state has no legitimate interest." But Judges Albert V. Bryan, 76, and Oren R. Lewis, 73, held that the state could ban such conduct because it "is likely to end in a contribution to moral delinquency." It was their ruling, though not necessarily their reasoning, that was upheld by the high court last week. The three dissenters would have heard full arguments before handing down a decision that now stands...
...good example of the misuse of warning slips is their issuance against employees who have been legitimately absent due to illness. Management has made a series of incredible statements to justify this practice. Edward Powers, director of employee relations, said last fall that "Regardless of doctors' reports employees who frequently are out...are unsatisfactory employees," to which his assistant Charles Off added, "It is an employee's responsibility to remain healthy" (Harvard Independent, Nov. 13-19, 1975). The following statement by Radcliffe manager Sweeney appears on the warning slip she issued to a woman worker who had been sick...
...Lady from the Sea is not one of Ibsen's strongest dramas, but it is psychologically compelling. As Ellida, Vanessa Redgrave illuminates the repressed sexuality, the abstracted inability to relate to others, the state of being "absent from oneself." Pat Hingle has never done more sensitive work than in portraying an unbelievably decent...
...supervisor came and hustled me back to the station platform. "We won't know why it went off until we get it back on," he said absent-mindedly. "Just tell your readers that service will resume in half an hour...
...husband are the first couple on the dance floor. The years between them add up to a tweedy century. They swirl in a self conscious foxtrot, counting every two beats as one. Their time is halved like this: for a few minutes they will dance absent-mindedly, staring in wonder at the crowd; then they will close their eyes, hug closer, and do a fair imitation of themselves thirty years earlier...