Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends for the oil industry. So far this year, crude oil producers' earnings are up 100% over last year. Refinery companies are well up also. With profits at these levels, many an oilman thought that the smart thing for the industry to do was to absorb the crude increase and hold the retail line...
...graft to live, and there is no possible way to stop this sort of graft until all Government employees, military and civilian, receive a living wage. But raising of Government salaries will increase the inflation, inflation will raise the cost of living, the rising cost of living will quickly absorb the raises in salaries, graft will start again-nobody will be better off. How can China break this vicious circle...
...poll of the seven House secretaries revealed that the "squeeze-play" to meet the College room shortage had been almost completed but at a new compulsory number of 16 for all but Adams, which was required to absorb only 12 extra students...
Today the booters get a taste of a modernized coaching plan. Instead of running through plays and scrimmages this afternoon the team will watch movies of several British professional soccer games as MacDonald figures they may absorb some of the finer points of the game while resting the day before a game...
...announcing the House plan to absorb 140 of the gym dwellers, Robert B. Watson '87, associate dean of the College, stated that it would be from ten days to two weeks before the multiple room changes could be made. Men eligible for the Houses will be moved from the Yard and the outside dormitories such as Claverly. Their vacated rooms will be turned over to the landless students...