Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes a pamphlet from his bookshelf and begins reading a passage from the Rhodesian criminal code: "Anyone is guilty of a criminal offense if he is absent from the farm during working hours, if he becomes intoxicated, if he refuses to obey any command of a master..." The list goes on. The punishment for such offenses ranges from caning and thrashing to two or three months in prison. Anyone unemployed for more then 30 days is also a criminal, subject to work on a farm for three months without pay, to receive "training" in such skills as digging ditches...
Brokers are further unnerved by the suddenness of the plunge. As recently as late October, the market had managed to look sound; hot analysts were being wooed by hefty salary offers, and small investors, long absent from the market, were starting to nibble again. Now many of the analysts are worried once more about their jobs. No fewer than 22 member firms of the N.Y.S.E. are on the Big Board's "early warning" list, meaning that they have been advised that their capital position has deteriorated dangerously and that they had better do something about the situation -and fast...
...form of government in which Catholics as well as Protestants truly share power. A few days after the appointment, representatives from Britain, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland sat down for their first, historic talks on a Council of Ireland. But the robust figure who made it possible was absent: Wil liam Whitelaw had a new war on his hands...
...three-day summit was surprisingly free of acrimony-except against Israel-in part because three notables were absent. The most radical of Arab leaders, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq's Ahmed Hassan Bakr, boycotted the conference because they thought it would soften Arab attitudes toward Israel. Jordan's King Hussein stayed home-although he sent a delegation -because he resented the participation of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. Concentrating on the three Ps of peace, petroleum and Palestine, the delegates, in the end, were able to wind up the meeting with the most impressive display of Arab...
...Disadvantaged children were notably short for their age, and four times as many of them suffered marked hearing problems as did the other children. The disadvantaged were five times as likely to be absent from school for long periods because of ill health or emotional disorders. One in 14 needed special education, compared to one in 80 among ordinary children...