Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the wisdom of the Kissinger commission ignores the key problem in Central America, a runaway birth rate too great for the countries to absorb. Until that situation is brought under control, Marxism will continue to appeal to the hungry, illiterate masses...
...petroleum, a result of its 1982 purchase of Marathon Oil, and only 31% from steel. Last week, though, U.S. Steel took a giant leap back to basics. Directors approved the purchase of National Steel, the seventh-largest maker, for $575 million in cash and stock. U.S. Steel will also absorb some $460 million in long-term National debt, making the total buy-out worth $1 billion...
...People enjoy these seminars because they can hear authors discuss their feelings, what causes them to write." Or as Novelist Anne Bernays (The Address Book), who came from Boston to speak at lunch, said, "People think if they can touch and talk to an author, they will absorb the magic, be able to do it themselves. That's why they always ask technical questions like 'Do you use a pencil...
...later use, heat picked up in the building's inner recesses is directed to 5 two cooling towers on the roof, which dissipate the heat into the atmosphere. In all seasons, the building gets a boost from rooftop solar collectors, which are arrays of black-painted pipes that absorb the energy of the sun's rays and provide most of the building's hot water for washrooms...
EACH IMAGE WARNER uses is cleverly conceived. Yet their incredible number makes difficult for the audience to absorb their opinion significant. All of the following appear at some point on the at some point on the two-levelled stage, shopping carts rifles, Mickey Mouse masks, a bathtub, a television, Twinkies, a refrigerator filled with McDonald's food and beer, walkie-talkie, larger than-life-sized photo stills, a microphone, a campers, a bare lightbulb, a Brown Bruins hat, a piano, a vacuum cleaner, a coffin and--last but not least--water guns. The costumes, which range from the several green...