Word: absents
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...public or private. These include: "The degree of selectiveness in membership requirements...the use of facilities by nonmembers...and the the performance of a public function." And even if the MCAD chooses not use Baker's framework, he insists that "No one factor is required, and many are absent in clubs which are nonetheless held to be places of public accommodation...
Professors contacted yesterday attributed the problem to a one-year surge in faculty leave-taking. Four History professors are absent this semester, according to the course catalog: Dunwalke Associate Professor Drew R. McCoy, Assistant Professor Thomas A. Schwartz, Warren Professor David Herbert Donald and Bliss Professor John Womack, Jr. McCoy is due to return this spring...
...Absent father. Melancholy mom. Squall-free adolescence followed by the ritual college degree. But with no draft to face -- no obligations at all, really -- how is a bright, sensitive, well-off young fellow to grow up? Honoring tradition, Alec Stern decides to go abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling...
...others. And they have begun to be taught the difference between right and wrong and that hurtful actions have consequences. Many youngsters, though, fail to acquire those early curbs on conduct. Later on, when children misbehave, indulgent parents make excuses and forgo punishments. Young boys who grow up with absent or uninvolved fathers suffer doubly in that they often fail to develop a healthy sense of masculinity...
...hormonal fire storm in one of these supposedly serene, and unquestionably enviable,settings. As traditional private schools changed, the fictional form they spawned fell into disuse, and, frankly, that engenders no deep sense of loss. All that quivering sensitivity! All that earnest soul-searching! All that whining about absent and misunderstanding parents, present and misunderstanding trigonometry teachers...