Word: absorbency
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...indicate how many of the troops released from service will be regulars. In the past, the People's Liberation Army has helped absorb some of China's underemployed. For example, hundreds of thousands of troops work in railroad and work battalions. Whatever the fate of the newly demobilized thousands, the cuts should help streamline and modernize a relatively backward military machine. They also serve a broader purpose. Just six months ago, Defense Minister Zhang Aiping declared that defense production should take a backseat to building up the state economy...
...means there's a cold chance in hell of getting any of it enacted." For example, the House would save $3 billion over three years in reduced Medicare costs, but without cutting benefits. The House somewhat wistfully hopes that the medical profession and private health-care services will voluntarily absorb increased costs...
...other factions. The FPO's popularity shriveled. In recent local elections, it netted no more than 6%, though it continued its role in central government. Until last week, that is, when Haider announced the formation of a new party, the Alliance for the Future of Austria, which would absorb all of the FPO's government ministers. Dismissing the FPO as "an important historical relic," Haider said it was time to focus on domestic issues such as jobs, families and cultural identity. "We do not want to use up all of our energy on our internal critics, we want...
...remains might have been Yokota's after all. In February, the British scientific journal Nature published an article in which the scientist who did the tests admitted they were inconclusive-and that the remains could have been contaminated with foreign DNA. "The bones are like stiff sponges that can absorb anything," Teikyo University DNA analyst Yoshii Tomio told a Nature interviewer. The technique Yoshii used, known as "nested PCR," also raised doubts: professional forensics labs in the U.S. don't use it because of the high risk of contamination, according to Terry Melton, a DNA expert at Pennsylvania-based Mitotyping...
...would argue that authors and publishers should not receive royalties or that HUL and Google should be allowed to proceed in their project without restrictions. Nevertheless, book publishers now have a golden opportunity to learn a lesson that the recording industry required almost a decade to absorb: royalties and a digital platform are not mutually exclusive. The success of the iTunes music store verifies this principle. The recording industry could have deployed a legal and effective solution like iTunes immediately after online music began to gain popularity; instead, they sued scores of consumers and resisted the inevitability of the fall...