Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hungary is another Communist state where profit can be a virtue. The country's thriving cooperative system leaves some 650,000 farm workers relatively free to make business decisions and to absorb losses or pocket gains. Leader Janos Kadar encourages small private ventures, with results that can be seen across the country. Virtually every Hungarian town boasts restaurants with tempting food and smooth service, clothes stores with high- fashion wear and bustling streets filled with numerous shops...
...giant pool of water. If the primary cooling system on PIUS fails, pool water floods and cools the core. A reactor being developed by General Electric, Rockwell International and Argonne National Laboratory is cooled directly by submersion in a pool, except that the liquid is molten sodium, which can absorb far more heat than can water before boiling away. Still, should some accident -- an earthquake, for example -- empty the pool, these reactors could conceivably melt...
Harvard undergraduates won't be left out of the festivities. Walker has slated various student musical groups to perform. "I wanted to bring in as many Harvard people as possible," Walker explains. "I am not so presumptuous as to think I could absorb everything that makes up a Harvard person...
...grilled in an iron skillet would have done credit to any first-class steak house. A rib roast was succulent and tender, but ground sirloin and chuck were too lean to make properly moist hamburgers. Pot roast and stew cuts, though acceptable, cooked so quickly that they did not absorb the flavors of seasonings, one of the advantages of the usually fatty, long-cooking cuts. As with all lean beefs, cooking is accomplished more rapidly because there is less fat to be cooked along with the meat; lower temperatures and one-half to two-thirds of standard cooking times...
...enough when verging on implosion, woe betide the listener once he gets his confidence and begins sharing his interests with the audiences. "The most fascinating thing," he says with a disconcerting zeal, "is that the larvae don't actually eat the dung, but absorb it through a sticky, permeable membrane located here...