Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pathet Lao's plans for Phong Saly appear to be patterned on what the Vietnamese Communists euphemistically call a "new economic zone," a remote area where primitive agriculture can absorb a large population of political exiles who are there to stay. Inmates in other parts of the Lao gulag may also be sinking some unwanted permanent roots. Many who were shipped off to re-education centers two years ago are still there, and some prisoners' wives have been warned to pack up and join their husbands if they ever want to see them again. The Pathet...
...become the major industry it is today. Immediately after World War II high school and college enrollments began to increase rapidly. At first returning soldiers swelled the number of students; later an expanding population fueled the growth in demand for education. General Education was in part intended to help absorb the new influx of students coming from a more varied educational background. But the same developments that persuaded the Faculty to create General Education also helped produce the specialization that is now destroying...
...GOVERNMENT needs to take a renewed interest in preserving the small, family farmer, who is suffering not because of his inability to produce as efficiently as a farm of 8000 acres, but because of his inability to absorb the losses resulting from a poor harvest. An insurance company investing in agriculture as a sideline can readily cover its short-term losses with profits from other areas of its business. The agricultural strike now in progress is a cry of frustration from small farmers being pushed out of business by corporate farms with greater financial resources. According to the U.S. Agricultural...
...Their power has grown out of the desire of Congress to compete with the previously overwhelming expertise of the vast bureaucracy of the Executive Branch. Also, legislative issues have grown more complex, and Congress has taken its watchdog function over the Administration more seriously. No Congressman can hope to absorb by himself most of the increasingly technical information demanded by both the expanded work of Congress and a more insistent and sophisticated public...
...10th century, is older than Oxford, Cambridge or the Sorbonne; Cairo University, with 95,000 students, is not only the biggest university in the Middle East but one of the largest in the world. Cairo's four universities, indeed, turn out more graduates than the impoverished Egyptian economy can absorb, and more than 1 million of them now work, often in key positions, in other Arab countries. The remittances they send home, amounting to $500 million last year, help trim Egypt's huge balance of payments deficit...