"The Senate caucus has completed its look into whether or not there is an informal practice that excuses some N.F.L. players from the league's anti-drug policy," Grassley said in a statement.
The bottom-line losses produced by that practice have excused the banks from paying taxes.
Seeing as "band time" involved no songwriting or practice, I excused myself.
To avoid the need for this, practice your excuse and your lie ahead of time so you won't have to stall and give yourself away.
Equally ominous, from a psychological standpoint, was when he decided he needed a more convincing reason to get out of wrestling practice than the excuses he was trading in.
"Being an organ donor doesn't cost money, doesn't cost time, doesn't take practice, all the excuses and challenges that we always associate with things," says Kati Penney of Bethesda, Maryland whose daughter Katrina, now in first grade, received a heart donation at the age of 9 months.
Dareus returned to practice after being excused to be with his family in Alabama to mourn the shooting death of his brother.
More broadly, Rajan seems to believe that we are a nation with pockets of high unemployment, but not a broad national problem, so that you somehow need surgical policies to address the issue (which in practice is an excuse to do nothing).
Testifying before Congress, insurers Wellpoint, Assurant and United Health acknowledged the practice of searching for excuses to cancel coverage.
Counterpoint IIA: But in practice, and intending no excuses for killers, most adults learn to exercise free speech with discretion.
