Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drilling platforms for British Petroleum in Scotland. They will be 700 ft. tall, about the size of the largest office building in Europe. A Norwegian firm is building for Phillips Petroleum a 1,000,000-bbl. at-sea storage tank with a double shell; the exterior is perforated to absorb the impact of the giant waves. This technology is so expensive that capital costs of drilling average 20 times higher than those encountered on land in the Middle East. Still, savings on transportation costs and taxes will enable oil companies to earn an estimated $1-a-barrel profit on North...
...mythological aura over the scene. One wanders along the White House drive these days disbelieving what one hears and sees. Twice before in the past decade it has happened. In the hours after John Kennedy's assassination, the enormity of the event was too much to absorb. In the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, when parts of Washington were burned and looted, people stood in a stupor on the White House lawn and saw the smoke drift over them and watched as looters broke windows two blocks away in deserted streets...
Throughout March the watershed states of the Mississippi River system received as much as three times their average rainfall. There were no spectacular storms-just day after day of precipitation, until the earth, already saturated by abnormally heavy winter rains and early spring thaws, could absorb no more. "We were one-inched to death," explained Allen Pearson, director of the National Severe Storm Forecast Center. The runoff gradually distended the Mississippi's major tributaries-in particular the Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and lower Missouri-until they jumped their banks last week...
...trustees of Boston's Department of Health and Hospitals announced Tuesday that it would slash by one-third the hospital's pediatric services after seven private hospitals agreed to absorb the patient overflow...
Many institutions are financially unable to absorb a drastic change in the composition of the student body, expecially if it meant increasing overall size to achieve a 1:1 ratio. Harvard pleads this as part of its defense against 1:1 admissions. Another argument claims that imposing 1:1 regulations would mean a probable drop in the student body's caliber at schools where the size of male and female applicant pools differ greatly...