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David Becker, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research, called the efforts “an absolute and complete waste of time.”

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It attacks the principles core to higher education, explicitly stating “academic freedom is not absolute.”

Crossroads actor Tony Adams has been remembered as an "absolute joy" following his death at the age of 84.

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“They are getting absolute radio silence and becoming increasingly desperate to stand out,” Ben Tobin, a career coach in Portland, Ore., said of the computer-science graduates he helps.

But he does not hold an absolute parliamentary majority after an ultra-Orthodox party quit in July, protesting against the government's failure to pass a law to exempt its community from military service.

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