Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even sourcebooks are more expensive thanthey once were, as printing companies get seriousabout enforcing copyright laws and force studentsto absorb publishers' fees...
...even sourcebooks are more expensive thanthey once were, as printing companies get seriousabout enforcing copyright laws and force studentsto absorb publishers' fees...
...foreign policy experts are also sobered by the German experience. Theirs is the curse of the answered prayer. They have calculated that relative to the size of their economy, it will be 10 times as expensive for them to unite with North Korea as for the Bonn government to absorb the former East Germany. The outbreak of political turmoil in the wake of Kim's death could send hundreds of thousands of Northerners pouring across the Demilitarized Zone. Or would-be refugees might be slaughtered by North Korean troops, a horror that would tempt if not oblige the South...
...recycling remains only part of the world's waste- disposal solution. Despite the enormous energy and enthusiasm with which Americans and others collect recyclable products, the real breakthrough can come only when similar effort is expended on reducing waste in the first place and in enticing more markets to absorb recycled materials...
...Schwarzenegger, in order to steal someone's motorcycle and clothes, drives a long-bladed knife through a man's shoulder, pinning him to a pool table, and fries another man's hands and face on the griddle of a restaurant. Ten-year- olds watch Schwarzenegger's disgusting violence and absorb it as if it were normal, acceptable and heroic behavior...