Negotiations with the House of Representatives to craft a final bill for President Obama will be difficult because of some major differences, notably the House bill's provision for a government-run health insurance option, absent from the Senate measure.

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God is the Dieu cache: God is the hidden God who is absent from the world and is, in effect, also the structure of the world. The same thing can be said of man.

上帝隐藏起来了：,上帝是隐藏于世界之外，同时，又是世界的结构，人类亦如此。

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His parents were very much absent from his growing-up life.

在他的成长过程中，他的父母并没有参与太多。

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