Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other troubling question is, Who pays? ``Businesses don't simply absorb increased wage costs,'' says Rob Shapiro, whom Labor Secretary Robert Reich tried hard (and unsuccessfully) to enlist as a supporter of the raise because, as a top Clinton campaign adviser, it was Shapiro who once convinced Clinton that hiking the wage was counterproductive. ``They pass them on in the form of higher prices, which are regressive because they're borne equally by all. Thus the vast majority of the 39 million poor Americans who won't benefit from a raise will be worse off, while a very...
Preliminary damage estimates ranged from $35 billion to $100 billion or more. Brokers, bankers and businessmen around the world read such estimates as a possible forecast of tough times ahead. But the Japanese economy is so big and resilient that while it might stagger, it could absorb the quake's blow. Trade with the U.S. and other major partners would be slowed, but delays in production could be made up later. As a longer range assessment took hold, the Nikkei leveled off and closed down 3.8% from the week's start...
Such realizations punctured some of the early forecasts of a silver lining in Kobe's tragedy. Even as heavily hit manufacturers like Kobe Steel had to absorb further jolts on the stock market, construction-industry issues were hot prospects on the Tokyo exchange. After the Nikkei index's steep dip early last week, bidding on these shares helped the exchange recover 318 points by the close of trading on Friday. But the boomlet of hope in the ashes was not enough to convince more sober heads...
Under the affect of Norwalk agent, "villi are blunted," says the text. Villi, normally finger-like protrudances which absorb food particles, become squashed like mushrooms...
With the movie, the subtitles, the singing and the music -- expertly conducted by Michael Riesman -- there is a lot of information for the listener to absorb all at once, but after a few minutes everything comes together seamlessly. The restless, relentless energy of the score -- tempered, for the first time in Glass's career, by some fetching love music -- pulls one into the film in a way that mere background music never could. By the final shot, of a sublime Beauty and her transformed Beast borne magically aloft and soaring through the clouds, the audience is as enchanted...