Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intellectual diversion for others. Like the Foreign Cultures requirement in the Core, the minority student is programmed into the educational equation as just another variable to broaden the horizons of the average law school or Wall Street-bound undergraduate. The latter purpose of diversity demands that Black students absorb the ethos of the school and find a place within the Harvard tradition...
...surer ways of accomplishing this. Even when Brecht was ripping off no one in particular, he felt the need to cloak his work with the patina of plagiarism. According to Brecht's doctrine of the epic play, setting works in an unfamiliar and unsympathetic context allows the audience to absorb the message of the works rather than getting absorbed in the character and stories. If Andrei Serban's seminew production of Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan shows anything, it's that a playwright's intentions can be taken far beyond the level of good taste and still work...
...threatening to detonate it unless the President withdraws nuclear forces from Europe. When the Kremlin hears about this, it activates its own crisis machinery, and the two sides inexorably proceed toward a macho nuclear confrontation. The chief of the Strategic Air Command warns that the C 3 system can absorb only a couple of hundred "hits" and still function. The National Security Adviser, who wants to prepare American missiles for launch even without the President's approval, argues, "If the Soviets strike first at our command and control, we may not be able to strike back." In short...
...quest for ways to reduce the U.S. trade deficit, the Reagan Administration has repeatedly urged other countries to grow faster and absorb more American imports. One of the prime targets of the jawboning has been Western Europe, which last year ran up a $26.4 billion trade surplus with the U.S. But if the White House is counting on much help from the Europeans this year, it is likely to be disappointed. That was the consensus of TIME's European Board of Economists, which met in London for its semiannual review of Europe's outlook. Average growth in the gross national...
...current chief of staff, Don Regan, who gave Speakes full membership in the inner circle. For the past two years the President's spokesman could and did fill himself with all the information he could absorb, and the tension between him and the White House press corps eased noticeably because the reporters sensed that Speakes had the facts...