Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respond to the challenges of a Newark or Detroit. It has technology that could be applied, from new and less lethal methods of riot control to systems planning and management capacity. This technology could redesign urban complexes, create effective regional transportation systems and provide the jobs that would absorb much of the energies now dissipated in violence...
...reduce X-ray emissions of high voltage tubes to safe levels, manufacturers equip the tubes with metallic shields that absorb most of the radiation. But because of a manufacturing error, the shields inside many of the 24,500-volt G.E. tubes were misaligned. As a result, part of the X rays emitted by the anode could leak through the bottom of the tube. The radiation from the tube, according to the Public Health Service, ranged from ten to 100,000 times more than the rate considered safe...
...meter (about 1 1/4 mile) race was held on Winnipeg's floodway, the world's second largest ditch after the Panama Canal. It is used to absorb the floodwaters of the Red River. The Pan-American Games authorities flooded three miles of the 26-mile floodway...
...ghettos. The ghettos grow by 500,000 Negroes a year, thanks to their high birth rate and migration from the South-which continues at much the same level as in the late 1940s and 1950s, despite the well-publicized difficulties of Northern-city Negro life. And the suburbs now absorb only about 40,000 Negroes a year nationwide. "If we don't change this," says Ylvisaker, "our major cities in 15 years will be predominantly Negro. The cities may well become a kind of Sherwood Forest, a prison for the people who live in them and a dangerous place...
...months, provide about the same training as normal medical-school programs. "These programs are designed to let the bright young man go at his own pace," says Dr. Shevis Smyth of the Association of American Medical Colleges, "to give him the best medical education as fast as he can absorb it." Still, a good deal of time in the first two years is left open for such nonmedical studies as language, sociology, music and philosophy. Even in the final med-school years, accelerated students at Northwestern attend seminars on "Four Plays of Shakespeare" and "Communications Theory...