Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keys under the flowerpot to the left of the front door... President Clinton and Madeleine Albright were conspicuous by their absence from Tuesday's formal ceremony transferring control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. to the host country. Clinton and Albright - who had previously indicated she would attend - drew the ire of Panamanian leaders by their absence, leaving leadership of the U.S. delegation to former president Jimmy Carter, who negotiated the handover 22 years...
...less scientific. The conjecture heated up on Monday, when the Justices dismissed an appeal from a group of Vermont parents whose case includes some of the most controversial aspects of the school voucher debate. At present, Vermont, which has a 130-year tradition of tuition reimbursement to students who attend secular private high schools when there is no public high school in their district, does not extend that reimbursement to parents who choose, under the same circumstances, to send their kids to religious private schools. The plaintiff parents claim their children's religious freedom is violated by the state...
...Friday, December 3, after a harried week of e-mails, phone calls, overheard conversations, reminders of favors due and down-on-both-knees begging, I'd compiled a list of 13 confirmed parties to attend that night, with enough fuzzy gatherings to make me believe that the goal of 15 could indeed be met and perhaps even surpassed...
...suggest going to Kirkland, but I am outvoted in favor of Mather. Tad continues to comment on the "goodness" of the blonde girls at every party we attend. We make the official declaration that any member of the team is welcome to leave at any time should they be getting close to hooking up. Being the writer, I am the exception to this rule...
...Hispanic child. That disparity, says TIME columnist Jack White, is due to the fact that being poor affects low-income black children's lives in a more broad-reaching way than it does poor white children. "Low-income black kids are more likely than poor white kids to attend isolated inner-city schools and visit public libraries without Internet access, or even computers," says White. Given the Internet's famously democratic roots, it seems doubly unfair that so many people find its tools just out of reach...