Word: absorber
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Exciting event or not, the formation of this new committee (the first of its kind in 18 years) is significant--though the regular Committee on Houses and the special committee looking at the parietals question will absorb the conspicuous issues, this new body will have great power over the future shape of the House system...
...this does not mean a restriction of the freedom in choice of topic, because papers that absorb the methodology or the ambience of a professor would also be indications that something of educational value has been transferred to the student during the course...
Conditional Concessions. Japan, dependent on the U.S. to absorb 30% of its exports, last month sent eight top businessmen to Washington to plead against such backward steps. The delegation returned to Tokyo in gloom. "We are not optimistic at all," said the group's leader, Chairman Kiichiro Sato of Mitsui Bank. "Japanese business must start thinking seriously of countermeasures." As the Japanese see it, the repercussions of U.S. protectionism, both economically and politically, are unestimable...
With no liberal wing such as that in the Czechoslovak party to absorb and channel complaints, Gomulka's regime seems to be on a collision course with students and intellectuals. Gomulka's own powers within the government seem to be considerably less than absolute, as proved by the fact that his condemnation of the anti-Semitic campaign has failed to stop it-or even slow it down. At week's end Jews were baited, in effect, to join the campaign; they were asked to denounce what the government called an international "Zionist" propaganda effort against Poland. There...
...determining the age of any ceramic, from a 6,000-year-old potsherd to a 19th century vase. The technique employs the radiation-measuring devices used at most atomic reactors and in hospital radiotherapy departments. It is based on the fact that most mineral substances buried in the earth absorb the natural radiation given off by uranium, potassium and thorium in the earth. The rate of radiation has been relatively constant in historical times, but all absorbed radiation is released when the substance is heated...