Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Healy said that with the economic growth that Cambridge is experiencing it will be important to look at the city 10 to 15 years in the future to see whether the city can absorb the expansion...
...fact, what he called his old Oxford neighbor [J.R.R.] Tolkien (whose books he refused to read ...), a 'monologist.' He would listen to whatever anyone had to say-although when he was especially wrapped up in his work ... he could not always absorb the sense of what was said ... During this period he got as hopelessly absent-minded as he ever has been ... When he was doing chores he would be thinking about the work ... Once when laying the table he put down knife, fork and glass for [his character] Sergeant Lamb. He did not do this, however...
Universities increasingly count on the corporate world to absorb the glut of Ph.D.s. Such universities as Harvard, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Virginia, Texas and U.C.L.A. have set up programs to retool humanities Ph.D.s for jobs in the business sector. Says Ed Escobedo, director of career planning at Stanford: "Humanists can do just about anything. They possess writing abilities, administrative abilities and the ability to work with values." Since 1978, New York University has been conducting summer crash courses in accounting, finance, economics and marketing for scholars from all over the country. Of the 271 graduates, nearly all have got jobs...
...wings and chicken feathers in the home of the village's demon priest. Indeed, the story threw many TIME correspondents into unsettling situations. After spending five weeks in Central and South America, sidestepping bushmasters, vampire bats, tarantulas and poisonous caterpillars, New York Correspondent James Wilde began to absorb some of a missionary's faith. Ten times his plane braved door-mat-size jungle airstrips, and ten times Wilde paled while local Christians prayed. Says he: "The missionaries' good luck, like their sense of fulfillment, is contagious. I have never met a group I liked more...
...year in spite of efforts to reduce it. Demographers estimate that the population will reach more than 100 million by the turn of the century. Even if economic growth were to return to its precrisis rate, the country would be hard pressed to produce enough new jobs just to absorb the 800,000 youths who join the labor force every year...