This was the Martine Wright whose absence was felt immediately by her family when she failed to arrive at her office late on Thursday morning.
One man who was absent from the party was Wayne Rooney, whose absence was owing to the fact his wife Coleen was scheduled to give birth to their second child.
Cases being dealt with by her union include one teacher who was told she would not be moved up the pay scale because she had failed to volunteer to organise and run a school club, and another whose absence was noted when the staff and parents formed a painting team to redecorate a classroom.
The documentary takes the American team -- minus possibly the best player of his era, Bill Walton, whose absence was noted by the Soviets -- to its rigid training camp in a Hawaiian military barracks and the creation of a plodding offensive team in Iba's mold.
There was one person, however, whose absence was conspicuous at the soirée: Guy Hands, the chairman of Terra Firma, the British private equity firm that bought EMI, the music publishing and recording company, for what it now says was $8 billion at the peak of the credit bubble in 2007.
Thirty-eight people lacked genes whose absence was thought to cause serious diseases.
Second-line center Mathieu Perreault filled in for Getzlaf, whose absence was felt in squandered power plays and just 11 combined shots in the first and third periods.
"When I came to D.C., I was a young, biracial kid, trying to adjust to West Coast and East Coast culture, reconnecting with a Muslim father whose absence was always present.
The Los Angeles Sparks chose to stay in their locker room during the playing of the national anthem at the Women's NBA finals in Minnesota, joining scores of other professional athletes, like the Pittsburgh Steelers, whose absence was widely reported on Sunday.
Primarily, that it appears the Kings are trying to dump the long and costly contract of Richards, whose performance has declined dramatically the last two seasons, while trying to preserve the career of Voynov, a skillful 25-year-old defenseman whose absence was keenly felt last season as they missed the playoffs.
