Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dour news, Cambridge remains in a better situation to absorb the continuing cuts and the worsening economic situation than other Massachusetts communities, said city administrators...
...prohibitive cost of launch insurance even higher. Insurers typically charge up to 30% of the combined value of a satellite and rocket, which would have brought the premiums for last week's mission to nearly $50 million. Faced with that bill, Intelsat set up a self-insurance fund to absorb the cost of the failure...
Time is short, though; one day is already gone. To fully absorb college life in the remaining time, you'll need some guidance. If you follow it diligently, you'll understand how Junior has been living since he or she stuffed a suitcase and a duffel bag two Septembers...
...said he wanted to be an environmental President, is making trees a kind of fetish of his Administration. In his budget submitted last week, Bush allotted $175 million to plant 1 billion trees this year. By the year 2000 there should be 10 billion new trees that eventually should absorb 13 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, or 5% of the nation's annual emissions...
...containers. A research team organized by the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is considering an answer to the problem: a rest stop at a first-class lounge in Hawaii. If they were plunked into a so-called relay pound, the weary crustaceans could stretch their claws and absorb oxygen from Pacific seawater for a day or so before resuming their voyage...