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Injuries, bad weather, and enemy strategy: it all adds up, except for one thing. The absent element, however, was supplied by coach McCurdy, who said, "The deciding factor was that Dartmouth was there...
...company when he was still in his 40s. He has no regrets. About 4% of his 12,000 employees are 65 or over, and the company says they perform just as well as, if not better than, their juniors. "The forgetfulness of a younger person is called absent-mindedness," says Gerald L. Maguire, director of corporate services for Bankers Life. "But when a person 70 years old forgets, it is called senility. However, we are tough about requiring a good day's work. We don't think the senior citizens want to be crutched in any special...
...figure who resolves all of life's dilemmas by retreating to adolescence. Despite Denner's amusingly self-effacing performance, it is hard to care about him or, worse still, the women he damages along his selfish way. Truffaut's vulnerability and sweet tragic sense are strangely absent here; this film is just depressing...
...council's move came in the three-hour rent control subcommittee hearing immediately before the council meeting. The subcommittee, which includes all nine city councilors as voting members, was unable to reach a consensus on the first five stronger motions, as it split four-to-four, with one councilor absent...
Biohazard does briefly mention the role of certain Harvard scientists, particularly Charles Thomas of the Medical School, in trying to water down restrictions in their own areas of research. Absent, however, is any information on the effects of regulation of recombinant DNA research on the careers of the researchers involved. Such information makes it clear why the scientists cannot be expected to act primarily in the public interest...