Word: absorbate
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...Work. Others saw far more potential trouble in the new act-the possibility that it would strain the nation's short supply of doctors, nurses and hospital beds. On the other hand, Dr. Edwin Crosby, director of the American Hospital Association, saw U.S. hospitals as easily able to absorb the influx of Medicare patients. And most Government authorities agreed. But they also worried lest the A.M.A.'s stand add unnecessarily to the headaches of making Medicare work...
Twig or Liver. Bresler and Duddy worked with her for five weeks, including several long sessions at the Persian Room after it closed at 2 a.m. so that "she could absorb the atmosphere." She went through 60 songs while Bresler and Duddy shouted, "Stand up straight! . . . Move your arms! . . ." Choreographer Peter Gennaro was enlisted to check her body movements, and Sound Inc. wired her into the latest in echo chambers. Then, after a break-in week in Columbus, Bobbe, now 20 lbs. lighter, opened last month at the Plaza...
...living is a good or bad policy is now almost irrelevant. Harvard, for as long as the war in Vietnam continues and the 10th House remains unbuilt, is going to have to permit a large number of students to live off. The Houses, even with more conversion, simply cannot absorb the added population...
...million output of the seven major producers: Textron's Bell Helicopter, Boeing-Vertol, United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division, Kaman, Hughes Tool, Fairchild-Hiller and Brantly, which was acquired last week by Lear Jet Corp. This year the Pentagon will spend $1.3 billion for 3,156 choppers, absorb 90% of U.S. production...
...sterling bloc-Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and South Africa. He confirmed a 21% tax on gambling, effective Oct. 24, a tax on casinos starting Oct. 1, and a widely anticipated increase in corporate income taxes, from 35% to 40%. Britain, said Callaghan, will also ask West Germany to absorb the $224 million-a-year cost of keeping British troops there...