Mr. Giuliani and his senior advisers were absent from City Hall yesterday for a daylong retreat in Queens to discuss initiatives for the mayor's remaining 18 months in office.
Mrs. Clinton's advisers said that absent some deal to seat the delegates from those states, the campaign would still argue that the popular vote in Michigan and Florida be counted.
On the economy and health care, added Don Sipple, a former Bush adviser, "The G.O.P. is absent an agenda that relates to average Americans".
On a day that Dan McNamara, an openly gay social studies teacher at New Rochelle High School and the adviser to the Tolerance Club there, was absent from school, a student wrote the word "faggot" on Mr. McNamara's classroom door.
"We are set for a long period of low inflation as pressures from commodity prices and the labour market – traditionally the two main suspects in the UK inflation drama – remain largely absent," said Peter Spencer, chief economic adviser to Item.
She was sometimes harder on her husband's team than he was, eventually urging him to replace them, and the tensions grew so severe that one top adviser erupted in a meeting in 2010, cursing the absent first lady.
For example, absent a waiver by the Commission, an investment adviser to mutual funds may no longer serve in that role if another entity, under common control, has been enjoined from acting in certain capacities.
"I'm not sure this is a knockout punch," said one financial adviser who has worked on many large banking deals but is absent from this one.
In addition, absent disclosure and consent, Section 206(3) prohibits an investment adviser, acting as a principal for its own account (or the account of an affiliate or controlling person of the adviser), to knowingly buy securities from, or sell securities to, a client.
(Deputy national-security adviser Tony Blinken did tell NPR on Friday that Obama has no "intention to use that authority absent Congress backing him," but the President hasn't answered that question directly himself).
