Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into powder and sent to Asia, where they are sold for as much as $540 an oz. for "medicinal" purposes. Men who take a tiny pinch of the powder are convinced that it enhances their libido. They believe that if you devour parts of a powerful animal, you will absorb its sexual vitality. And if bear gallbladder fails, they will contrive potions and lotions from the hump of the camel, the penis of the tiger or the horn of the rhinoceros...
...computer age, and the results are just starting to show. Soviet manufacturers cranked out a record 100,000 microcomputers last year, bringing the total number of personal computers to an estimated 200,000. That is a far cry from the 30 million machines Moscow estimates the country can absorb. By all accounts, Gorbachev's electronic- literacy program will fall far short of its ambitious goal of installing a million computers in the schools...
...with state-run projects. The primary goal of his proposal, which in many respects echoed Lenin's quasi-capitalist New Economic Policy of 1921, was to inject vitality into the U.S.S.R.'s laggard consumer goods and services industries. In addition, the new co-ops would pay taxes and presumably absorb some of the 15 million workers who might lose their jobs in a much needed pruning of the bureaucracy...
...saying goes. It can be dangerous, but it can just as easily be used wisely. "I do have faith," says Case Western's Murray. "Not that the judgment of people is always right, but that eventually we will preserve a good measure of fairness and justice. If we can absorb Copernicus and Galileo, if we can absorb Darwin and Freud, we can certainly absorb mapping the human genome...
...Democratic Party in California. Or it could be the return of the flake." The greatest fear is that his election will undermine Democratic candidates by giving Republicans a chance to dredge up his Moonbeam past. Brown thinks otherwise. "I can become the media black hole that absorbs all the negative feedback," says he. "I can absorb a lot of flak that would otherwise go to our candidates." The most organized opposition to Brown came from women's groups concerned about abortion rights. A pro-choice Governor, the former Jesuit seminary student did an about-face after working for Mother Teresa...