The usual coffee shop frills are also conspicuously absent: there are no cakes, salads or sandwiches.
With Blair on the bench and Cusiter absent, Glasgow lock Alastair Kellock will captain the side.
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Absent a doc fix, many more physicians would surely join them on the sidelines.
Masonis claims that Parker was often absent, and when he was around, he was distracting.
He expects a mere 10% gain in revenues this year, absent any new acquisitions.
All around us we see the effects of poor or absent parenting negatively affecting society.
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Shulman has been conspicuously absent from any public discussion of the tax whistleblower program.
With big pharma in many cases absent from the game, biotech entered the field.
And yet, the unintended effect of the absent inverted thumb has been precisely this.
Doctors on the ground attribute it to untreated disease, few resources and absent physicians.
Lawmakers have been conspicuously absent at convention-related events (at least those open to the press).
At least when an employee is absent someone can cover for him or her.
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Absent evidence to the contrary, there is no reason not to credit that denial.
But high-end private homes have been conspicuously absent from most portfolios of the country's greatest architects.
It was something that was absent all season in his stint with the Jets.
Melastatin stuck out as being present in curable tumors but absent in nasty ones.
Shaheen, though, was absent from Athens after the disgruntled Kenyan Olympic Committee blocked his participation.
Repeated late and absent employees are given a warning or two, and then fired and replaced.
Absent from the the previous three games through injury, Ebanks-Blake struck just after half-time.
And absent some major technological breakthrough, it's unlikely to do so in the future.
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Random House titles had been conspicuously absent because of a disagreement related to pricing.
Meanwhile green group co-leader, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, described Mr Barroso as the "absent president of Europe".
The zippiness of mainstream electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi MieV was completely absent.
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It's a small detail, and if it were absent, it wouldn't detract from the e-reader.
Arsenal are pretty useful going forward too, even though Robin van Persie will be absent injured.
Absent health care reform, do you have a plan B or a second stimulus?
Absent from CES was one of the most influential companies that marries technology and media, Apple.
Also notably absent at Republican events in Iowa this week, the issue of Iraq.
Absent that, the HTC One Developer Edition seems just as tempting as ever.
If that trust is absent then people will see such cuts as unfair and punitive.
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