Word: absents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything wrong with purely social activities. It is just that that when minorities begin not only to eat together, but also to dance, play board games, put on productions, engage in sports, study and take study breaks together, then they have enclosed themselves in a self-sufficient community, absent of whites or other minorities. I do not think that this is what minorities, or whites, should strive...
...editors, who are still trying to come back from the 1987 crash and have offered this investment seminar as a subscription-renewal bonus ("A $500 retail value! Act now! Air fare and hotel not included"). They are here because they are eager students of the market, even if temporarily absent from it, and they are determined to figure the whole thing out, or find somebody else who can figure it out for them. The newsletter gurus look to be their best hope. Ralph Campbell, a retired furniture manufacturer, admits that he subscribes to eight or ten newsletters, at an annual...
Council members absent for last Sunday's vote now planning to vote to support the resolution...
...panel of faculty members reported a poor record on hiring of women and minority faculty. According to Lawrence Watson, co-chair of the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators at Harvard, "If Harvard as the premier institution that trains the best and brightest is a place that is absent of the best Black men and women, it sends a message that we are not very good." This report followed an equally critical report 10 years earlier. Ten years, 20 years...how long must women and minorities wait on Harvard's good graces...
...Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Both men appear remarkably simple in contrast to the usual European portrayal of divine monarchs as surrounded by pomp and glory. They seem grim and powerful, but the festive air which typically accompanies European monarchs of the time period is glaringly absent...