Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those were tough words to absorb. Only weeks earlier, our first au pair had arrived from Switzerland. We spent one restless night wondering, Who was this young lady with the purple spiky hair sleeping down the hall? But we hadn't encountered any real problems, and at that early date we were still confident in the arrangement. Not long after, our au pair odyssey began in earnest. It's no tale of tragedy, like that of Sunil and Deborah Eappen. But it is, I believe, an all too common experience, one that laid bare the flawed nature of au pair...
...sure of getting rid of them, even if the Pentagon knew what Saddam was hiding and where. (It does not.) Bombing Saddam into submission is no sure thing either, because the Iraqi President, who builds palaces while his people starve, seems willing to let his country hunker down and absorb almost limitless punishment. Such an attack would involve bomber squadrons as well as missiles, endangering American lives. It would also convulse the Arab world, which fears a destabilized Iraq--"Beirut with ballistic missiles," as a Gulf Defense Minister describes it--as much as it fears Saddam. The region is already...
With such stoicism, one may easily mistake Stereolab for an opening band. Their static stage manners coupled with the relatively sober crowd give no hint to their brilliance. Upon closer inspection, the crowd was awaiting the evening's top bill not with indifference, but bona fide reverence--creening to absorb the group's trademark sound of hypnotic rhythmic tracks overlaid with melodic, mesmerizing vocals...
Shouldn't the larger entity absorb the losses to guarantee quality food at quality prices? It is no surprise that Loker is losing money. They take away the few food options that existed last year and leave us with microwaved pizza and burritos already available at a more convenient Store24. As good as it is, the Greenhouse may suffer a similar fate, if the price-raising continues, despite the edible food it offers. --Adon S. Hwang...
That momentum is likely to continue under Goizueta's probable successor, M. Douglas Ivester, 50, the company president, who is expected to be named CEO this week. It is a notable achievement that Goizueta built a management team that can absorb his loss. "They really have a depth of management," says Jennifer Solomon, an analyst at Salomon Brothers. "I would be much more concerned if this issue arose at some other companies." Ivester has virtually run Coke's operations since being appointed president three years ago, which allowed the cerebral Goizueta to manage the big picture...