Word: truant
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...Some agriculture experts even see a potential silver lining to the absentee clouds. They hope the truant monsoon will jolt India's bureaucracy into action to implement much-needed and long-delayed agricultural reforms, as well as improve India's water resources management. Steps should be initiated to link the farmers to the market and improve farm and post-harvest infrastructure, and provide a favorable tax regime for the agriculture and related sectors. The wasteful subsidy regime also needs to be overhauled. Fertilizer subsidies mostly benefit rich farmers and lead to gross overuse. "Subsidized electricity for farmers encourages excessive...
...school, as the teachers drone on about such traditional crowd pleasers as the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. Scenes of exquisite calculation at home, as Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) fakes an illness that will spare his fine intelligence another assault by the proponents of useless information. Ferris is no ordinary truant. The point of his exercise is not to waste the day but to spend it wisely. Or wise-guyly. So he will spring his best girl (Mia Sara) from school. He will get his best friend (Alan Ruck, who is lovely as a boy struggling for security) to abscond with...
According to Steven Panora of Truant & Associates, the company hired to oversee the Lampoon’s project, “the work is mainly ‘preventative maintenance...
...have a press pass, but I get there early. Jack, my truant brother, doesn’t show, so I sit on the pavement outside the Ballroom (a tiny, tired converted roller rink) in North London with a kid from Peterborough. His red hair is shellac-ed, and he talks about Welsh rap. He’s wearing white shoes shaped like elongated diamonds. He smokes rollies...
...brief John Woo tribute, slow motion as doves flutter around a thug. In addition to cameos by Drew Pinsky (MTV's Dr. Drew) and Bob Saget (the girls' dad on Full House), we get to observe the mortification of some fine comic actors: Eugene Levy as a truant officer who thinks he's Dirty Harry, Andrea Martin as a Senator, Andy Richter as a klutzy villain and Darrell Hammond as the hapless victim of the twins' artless physical comedy...