Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year low of 4.2% in November, just a bit away from what the Administration considers virtual full employment. Still, the U.S. does not yet have classical inflation-a sustained price rise of more than 2% a year. Industrial production is rising faster than the supply of money required to absorb it, and wage gains have stayed comfortably ahead of price increases (see chart...
...view of many power experts, the problem goes far beyond breakaways, centering on the whole question of how to perfect the pool systems so that they can absorb major disturbances without being pulled down. Only two things seemed certain at week's end. It had been, as Texas' Democratic Representative Walter Rogers, chairman of the House Interior Committee's power subcommittee, wryly noted, "a hell of a flick." And it could well happen again...
...There is a limit to the amount of moral values the Constitution can absorb," Mansfield asserted. "The idea 'hat one's conscience can never be overruled negates the idea of government...
...will Europe be able to absorb this output when it begins flooding the market in the next three years? Despite warnings that capacity might rise faster than demand, fiber makers see little real danger ahead. Competition should mean lower prices, thus bigger markets. The biggest reason for optimism is the European consumer. Though synthetic-fiber production has doubled in five years, the average Frenchman still owns only two suits, and the average German woman still buys half as many girdles and bras as her U.S. counterpart...
...Mood to Pare. Since buyers in todays affluent market are willing to pay more for comfort, convenience and gimmickry, the builders themselves absorb only part of the costs of the extras. In any case, they are in no mood to pare prices: they expect demand to increase next year, when the new Housing Act will enable veterans to get longer and lower-cost mortgage loans and will provide easier federal financing for higher-priced homes and raw land In addition, the number of Americans who will marry and enter the housing market will jump this year from...