Word: absented
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Hershey said the absent employees would "probably get docked a day's pay, or take one of three 'floating holidays' allowed to employees," and added that she expected the administration to take no disciplinary action...
...death penalty, with no right of appeal. The cases had been shifted from civilian courts to military courts, which gave little consideration to the defense. Additionally, I think there is a high probability that torture was used in these cases. In an atmosphere of police vengeance, with legal safeguards absent, it is wrong to presume the guilt of the five executed...
...faceless bureaucrats. If Marx taught us anything, it was that freedom cannot be conferred from above--people must have the opportunity to organize their own lives and discover their own dignity and worth. Frederick Wiseman's recent documentary, Welfare, made it amply clear that both freedom and dignity are absent in the current welfare system...
...there is more of a desire among people, particularly students, to convey a sense of awareness to the Westerner, a feeling that, as one East Berliner put it, "We're not being taken in. We have both feet on the ground." Bitterness or anger at the Russians was really absent in these cases, replaced by a cagey cynicism about global power politics...
...that he would not be in jail for long. Disdainfully refusing to enter a plea in his defense, he crowed, "I shall answer only to history and the Greek people." To which Court President Ioannis Deyannis replied, his small sharp features pinched in anger, "Do you think history is absent from this courtroom...