Word: absents
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...underpinning for stocks' strong performance, global bulls say, is straightforward. Economic growth continues to be strong in places where it has been buoyant for several years (the U.S., China and India) and is finally picking up in places where it had been notably absent?Japan and parts of "old" Europe. In Germany, Europe's largest economy, the Ifo Business Climate Index, a key indicator of economic health, reached a 15-year peak last month. Moreover, earnings and corporate balance sheets around the world are as healthy as they have been in years. In Japan, corporate profits have climbed for four...
...really rise to the level of importance that they deserve,” he said. The University has not yet announced the size of the advisory boards or how their members will be selected, and a University spokesman, Joe Wrinn, declined to comment yesterday. Graduate student representation is also absent at the current stage of the search for the next chief of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty’s governing council agreed in February that a committee of professors would compile a list of deanship candidates, and that...
...explosiveness of football to baseball and its subtler charms. In the way of counter-argument, I present the idyllic settings of ballparks, the tactical nuance that goes into every strategic decision, and the unmatched tension of a ninth-inning nail-biter. Sadly, all of these elements were absent from Harvard’s Sunday doubleheader with Columbia. The vista beyond the fences of O’Donnell Field is nothing to marvel at. With a cruel gust blowing in off the Charles, it was cold and I was underdressed. The seemingly interminable noon-time twinbill didn?...
...signs of cooling. He will start Game 1 of tomorrow’s Ivy home-opening doubleheader against Penn (7-19, 2-6 Ivy). Sophomore Matt Vance, the team’s de facto leadoff man—his ten steals lead the league—will be conspicuously absent from the outfield. Vance stayed home yesterday to visit with doctors about what appeared to be a torn labrum, the principal muscle of the throwing shoulder. Until Sunday’s game against Cornell, he had been playing through pain in centerfield. Vance denied that he would opt for surgery...
...preliminary matter, direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority government is already barred by law, absent a rarely-used presidential waiver that such assistance is in America’s national security interests. Such a waiver will certainly not be granted as long as Hamas controls the Palestinian Legislative Council...