Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Once you give a tax break on a large piece of land for manufacturing, somebody is going to have to absorb the burden," she says...
...question of what to do about the world's remaining virgin forests. At the heart of the debate are the tropical rain forests -- and a fundamental difference in how each side sees them. To industrial countries they are a treasure trove of biodiversity and greenhouse-gas "sinks" that absorb CO2 and thus help keep global warming in check. To developing nations the forests are resources ripe for exploitation: potential farmland, a free source of fuel and a storehouse of exotic kinds of wood that command high prices overseas...
Usually, she is the one to brush off criticism. "That's the price of success," she says. She knows that the person out front must absorb the most blows. She knows she has to handle the unrealistic expectations and frustrated disappointment of the Palestinian public; if the peace process fails, her $ political future, even she herself, would be in danger. She knows that hard- liners who oppose the negotiations take it out on her. "They try to attack the person, not the issues," she says. She knows a lot of it is envy, from rivals who wonder why they...
...bill for unity must be paid. The best way to pay it would be for Germany to remain the industrial powerhouse of Europe, and that means workers willing to sacrifice for unity now as they did for recovery in the past. A robust, expanding economy can absorb the costs; a stricken, shrinking one cannot...
...year 2010. This migration has not led to the racist violence that has greeted non-European migrants to France, Germany and other countries. It is a promising measure of the society that it has remained mostly calm in the face of such a transformation; that ability to absorb change will seem increasingly valuable in the future...