Word: absorbate
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...nannies with strong wills and limited imaginations. Philip, worried about the sensitive Charles, sent him off for toughening to his own spartan alma mater, Gordonstoun. Bradford's pages on Charles' beatings and bullyings are hard to read. Both neglected and spoiled, none of the children could quite absorb their mother's sense of purpose into their own lives...
...anti-immigrant nativist sentiment that pervaded the United States in that era-some of which bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the rhetoric of Pat Buchanan and his herd of sheep-was one reason for the reluctance to absorb the homeless refugees. Hitler's righthand propaganda czar went as far as to say "At bottom... I believe both the English and the Americans are happy that we are exterminating the Jewish riff-raff." This is certainly the conclusion he would have been led to if he was aware that Roosevelt had the ability to order a bombing of the railway lines...
...other hand, the media should not absorb all of the blame. The shortsightedness of the media subtly mirrors the short attention span of the public. Papers are reluctant to fact-check because the public seems to have little interest for accurate reporting. The sensational always works. The public dislikes deep analysis because it's not interesting...
...here will seem at odds with statements made by the President and First Lady, some of them under oath. At various times, they or their spokespeople have alleged that the Clintons had virtually nothing to do with Whitewater and were simply "passive" investors; that the McDougals didn't really absorb significantly more losses than the Clintons; that Hillary wasn't responsible for Madison Guaranty's becoming a client of the Rose firm; that she wasn't familiar with a real estate development called Castle Grande and didn't work...
...percent. "If this drags on, Taiwan will lose its competitive edge of market stability, and in a way that is Beijing's ultimate message," FlorCruz says. "China doesn't have to invade Taiwan to disrupt its peaceful environment. Investors will be jitterish. Markets will be wobbly. No economy can absorb such a protracted beating." Taiwan had been hit by economic problems before the crisis with China began last summer. The highly speculative real estate market was hit by a string of collapses and bounced checks, affecting both the stock market and the bank sector. Taiwan's main stock index...