Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...belief that the Justice Department in particular and the Administration in general is intent upon the diminishment of civil liberties in the nation, and has already to some extent succeeded. This feeling is intense. As best I can tell, they mostly get this belief from their children, who absorb it in the atmosphere of the elite universities. But they believe their children, and in consequence, detest the Administration...
...Friedlander estimates that both environment and local aid will absorb $200 million more in state fiscal resources. At the same time, the government is facing a revenue gap of $125 million. In ???? with these ??? ??? ??? ?? antipoverty program would mean raising an additional $500 million from a combination of sales, income, and miscellaneous taxes. A nasty and frantic round of "tax politics" would have to precede any high-minded reign of "poverty politics...
...texture is uniform, smooth matte black. Meadmore's sculptures do not respond to light, but absorb it with a dense matter-of-factness, declaring their absolute distance from the world of nature. Because Meadmore avoids focusing attention on the specific substance of his monoliths (the last question the viewer asks, upon looking at them, is what they are made of), he has managed to free them from the feeling that normally accompanies a sense of great mass -heaviness...
...stands to lose many of the fresh, new ideas that make the economy grow and prosper. The paring of research will have consequences that can only be guessed at. The pressure on profits also aggravates inflation: the tighter the squeeze on earnings, the less room corporations have to absorb the increase in their costs without raising their prices...
...plan will save money by eliminating redundant bureaucracy. Harvard will absorb Radcliffe's estimated $250,000 deficit under the contract...