Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Couch said that although her office has been able to absorb the costs in ways which will not affect students, she is uncertain that the bureau will be able to continue that policy if asked to accept further cuts...
Other departments have not yet asked students to pay for copying costs, but have tried to absorb the budget cut in other ways...
...Soviet Jews themselves are not an issue which could deadlock the peace negotiations. No one is trying to impede their immigration to Israel. The United States and Western Europe, which pressed long and hard for the right of these Jews to emigrate, recognize an obligation to help Israel absorb them. The four month delay in loan guarantees that President Bush seeks would not jeopardize this process...
...tawny blond and blue surfaces of the seascapes, like Le Chenal de Gravelines: Petit-Fort-Philippe, 1890, mediate between solidity (the molecular structure of the skin of paint) and transparency in a way that is unique in 19th century painting, and as a result they can absorb and reward all the contemplation the eye can give them. The port, under its light-suffused spell, its unpeopled high-summer sleep, becomes a subject of reverie but not a fantasy, anchored in the real by such declarative touches as the iron bollard placed dead center in the foreground, yet located...
...ease up on his request for loan guarantees. Since mid-1989, 300,000 Soviet Jews have emigrated to Israel, and it is estimated that the number may top 1 million by 1995. Israel, which had a population of 4.5 million before the influx began, lacks the resources to absorb so many. Health care, schools and infrastructural needs are all suffering; early this year unemployment hit a record high of 10.8%. Moreover, the tide of immigrants improves the demographic position for Israel's Jews, many of whom feared until recently that they would be outnumbered within the next 25 years...