Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Malik Hakim lay in his bed in the jail ward of Boston City Hospital. A young black woman sat in a chair beside him, her head and body bent forward as if to allow her to physically absorb what he was saying...
...Valley View's 6,700 pupils take a holiday. So it goes throughout the year, summer included. Valley View uses its classrooms efficiently, dividing the children into four groups that have staggered schedules of nine weeks on and three weeks off. Thus the school has been able to absorb 1,760 new pupils without putting up a new building. Assistant Superintendent James Gove says the plan is "the equivalent of adding 75 classrooms worth $7,500,000 without spending a cent...
...been a long day for the back-to-school bunch, most of them in their mid-30s, a few older. They had caught an early-morning train, gone through their regular routines at corporations like Xerox, IBM and Bristol-Myers and now were being asked to absorb economic theory. But no one looked tired. The timetable on the 5:56 was clear enough: 76 minutes to Huntington on this evening, two years to an M.B.A., more prestige in the office and perhaps bigger salaries. The mood was positive...
...jobs located outside the city. This program has two substantial effects in Forrester's model--raising the number of jobs relative to Workers, which increases the upward mobility of the Underemployed, and vastly swelling migration of the Underemployed to the city. Having plenty of excess Underemployed Housing around to absorb large numbers of immigrants, the city winds up with the same sort of problem in the end, but on a larger scale. In addition, because Underemployed require higher percapita tax expenditures for police and welfare, the local tax burden rises. This has the effect of further discouraging construction...
...unit labor costs that companies must pay. Also, workers would have limits placed on their pay raises, but companies would have no limits on their profit increases, which should rise high in a period of business recovery. To make up for that, corporations should be willing to absorb part of any climb in labor costs. A POLICING BOARD. A review board would police the guidelines. It would have legal power to investigate any wage or price increase; it could subpoena company records and compel union chiefs and corporate executives to testify before the board. Occasionally, it might make an example...