Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eerily uninflected as Howard Korder's The Lights and a production as epic and energized as Mark Wing-Davy's at New York City's Lincoln Center. Without preaching, without invective, without in any way distorting urban life, The Lights makes one ashamed to dwell in a city and absorb its brutish selfishness...
...Environmental and medical groups charge that federal air-pollution laws do not take into account the fact that children are more susceptible to air pollution than adults. Explanation: children spend more time out of doors, absorb more pollutants into their small bodies, and have more trouble expelling foreign particles from their less-developed lungs...
...would increase the Palestinian population in the territories by one-third and bring in many individuals deemed security risks by Israel. In reality, both sides recognize that the main constraint on the number of returnees is economic: the West Bank and Gaza Strip are impoverished and cannot afford to absorb a gigantic influx of newcomers. During the secret negotiations in Oslo, both sides informally batted around the figure of 200,000 returnees...
Security, simplicity, savings, choice, qualityand responsibility are essential to change thesystem which absorb 14 percent of the nationalincome annually, Clinton said...
...Sharon shrilled for contributions, "strategic depth" was his most prominent rallying cry. A Jewish-settled, Israeli-controlled West Bank would provide the necessary physical cushion to absorb the blow of any military thrust against Israel. He saw no irony in reassuring his audience that the West Bank settlements are valuable and truly livable, while simultaneously designating their inhabitants as mere cannon fodder. To use citizens in such a way is evidence of a very odd logic--an ad hoc obstructionism which offers no prospect of a decisive issue...