Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pulp used to make U.S. newsprint acts much like the juvenile hormone that young bugs secrete. This hormone keeps the bugs immature until they are ready for metamorphosis; only after its flow is stopped can the bugs become adult. When the insects come in contact with the paper, they absorb the hormonelike chemical through their feet and antennae...
...President immediately pre-empted prime TV time to distribute credit. "All America is grateful to these men you see beside me," said he-though Abel and Cooper looked far too weary to absorb anything as intangible as gratitude. Added Johnson: "The welfare of the American people-the needs of freedom in Viet Nam and in every continent-took precedence over any other consideration or interest or desire." The long, long stalemate, he suggested charitably, had not been "so the union would win, or the companies would win-but that the nation would win. And the American nation...
...Common Market countries ($1.4 billion in 1964) is threatened by the community's drift toward protective tariffs. But Europe is not the whole world; as other nations improve their diets and elevate their tastes, they may open huge new markets for U.S. farm products. Even so, they could absorb only a fraction of the 5 to 10% year-in, year-out overproduction of U.S. agriculture...
...They already have to absorb the current 75? subsidy. The increase, added to the basic support price of $1.25, would guarantee farmers a $2.50-per-bushel price for wheat they grow under federal acreage allotments...
...situation is far different from what it was in the 1950s. The Government reports that it has no plans to impose controls. It figures that controls would not be necessary because both the private and the public sectors of the economy are large enough to absorb military escalation without much of a wrench. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who during the Korean war was director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, points out: "When Korean fighting broke out, we had a defense budget of $10 billion. And there was no force in being to sustain large-scale fighting. By contrast...