Word: absorbability
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...have met thieves before, but few so epically wicked. There is something about Madoff's ability to look people in the eye as he stole from them, to accept accolades from the charities he was destroying, to absorb the praise of people who trusted him over decades of deception. He started out as a lifeguard, then let people drown...
...Cheng, a Penang-based corporate-affairs executive with Intel. According to Citigroup's Chua, companies in South Korea, which was the first to sign a swap facility with China, have so far also declined to utilize it. Indeed, even if it were used, the $26 billion facility could only absorb a fraction of the trade between South Korea and China, which totaled $168 billion...
Daydreaming about Harvard in high school, you may have imagined wood-panel rooms lined with dozens of Gutenberg Bibles and the busts of ancient Greek philosophers—a haven where students would absorb knowledge from the mere scent of the ancient books surrounding them. Uhhhh...maybe not. Maybe you just smoked pot or played the sousaphone. But anyway, you'll grant FlyBy that studying at Harvard is not quite the stuff of dreams (especially in the early morning). That's where the House libraries come in. Many replicate a sense...
...ASRM's Tipton argues that it's difficult to determine whether doctors fail in their responsibility to communicate the risks or whether patients simply do not absorb all the necessary information before signing consent documents. "What are you supposed to do, give the patient a quiz or have them read it back to you before they sign it?" he says. "At some point you have to trust that a patient means it when they choose to participate and sign forms saying they had the risks explained to them...
Bailey said he believes CHA will be able to absorb the remaining $30 million dollar deficit in its 2010 fiscal year budget without further employee or service cuts...