Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unprecedented act of immigrant bashing, the welfare bill also threatens to cut off assistance to thousands of legal immigrants. Despite Clinton's appeals for employers to hire former welfare recipients it is highly dubious that the job market can absorb such a great influx of unskilled or marginally skilled workers. The precious little funds that have been allotted for job training are woefully inadequate. And the true victims of the welfare bill are children--a study by the Urban Institute and an internal report by the HHS estimate that one million children will be pushed into poverty as a result...
...signed the new law, the normally dispassionate Wilson told me he was "disappointed and very upset." Though Clinton has stated that Wilson's earlier work "made me see race and poverty and the problems of the inner city in a different light," it seems clear that he didn't absorb all the lessons. "Under the original proposal that Clinton introduced when he entered office," Wilson explains, "welfare recipients would be required to undergo training and job placement during a two-year maintenance period, then accept jobs in the private sector. But if private-sector jobs weren't available, public-sector...
...left to sink or swim, and for those in the inner city the situation will be catastrophic. The supply of low-skilled workers compared to the number of jobs that are available is so large that it would take 10 to 15 continuous years of economic expansion to absorb them. We've never had a period of sustained economic growth that has lasted that long. This means that if we want to prevent a large number of mothers and children who are now on welfare from becoming homeless once they reach the time limit we're going to have...
...ingredient is a naturally occurring chemical found in pine trees--something else Finland has a lot of. Called sitostanol, the compound makes it harder for the body to absorb cholesterol. One of Raisio's scientists figured out how to extract sitostanol and mix it with conventional margarine. Then doctors from Helsinki tested the blend for a year on 153 subjects and reported in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that the cholesterol counts of people who used sitostanol-laced margarine daily dropped from 235 mg/dL to 210 mg/dL...
...Gwyneth did the most impeccable Texas accent in Flesh and Bone. She has an amazing ear. And, of course, everything else is perfect. Her speaking voice is a beautiful instrument, and she photographs like a dream--all the light goes to her on the set, and she seems to absorb it and then give it back...