Word: absorbate
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...companies that are using their shelf stock to meet sales will eventually have to replenish their stock. But what pleased Government economists was the inventory decline's minor effect on the economy. Although inventory retrenchment has been going on for months, the economy has been able to absorb the loss without any great damage. The question now was how long the inventory decline would continue...
...will track all aircraft in a three-state zone. Hardest-to-lick problem thus far is jet noise, but airport officials hope that the new turbofan jet engines will eventually alleviate even that drawback of the jets. Dulles Airport is planting 80,000 trees around its rim to help absorb jet noise...
Next morning a heavy southeaster drove a press conference into the living room of old Joe Kennedy's home, where newsmen were surrounded by assorted Kennedys and in-laws (including Jackie's pretty sister, Princess Radziwill). The special three-week session of Congress, said Jack, would absorb all of his and L.B.J.'s time and attention until Labor Day; despite Nixon the campaign could wait. During the session, they would attempt to enact such major Democratic planks as medical care for the aged, a $1.25 minimum wage, aid for education, and foreign aid, and if President Eisenhower...
...along with a long-leashed telephone, maps, charts and other paraphernalia. There Bobby, Jack and their top strategists - Kenny O'Donnell, Larry O'Brien, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith, Bailey and Rowe - began to map out the looming campaign. Bobby and Steve stripped to the waist to absorb the sun along with the strategy, and Old Pro Bailey unbent enough to take off his necktie. From time to time one of Bobby's seven children wandered into the circle, but for all their informality, the conferees produced a series of decisions...
...magical electrolytic cell containing a sodium sulphate solution. When an electric current passes through it, oxygen bubbles off from one electrode. An acid is formed in the solution at the same electrode, and a caustic accumulates at the other electrode. The caustic can be withdrawn and used to absorb carbon dioxide from the sub's atmosphere. When it is then remixed with the acid from the other electrode, the carbon dioxide separates and can be pumped out of the submarine. What remains is the same sodium sulphate with which the cycle started. When this system is at work cleaning...