Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies. The oil firms already pay an average of 75? a bbl. in royalties, plus a 50% tax on profits. In addition to an oversupply of oil and slumping world prices, the producers are now saddled with an added cost of doing business. They have no choice but to absorb...
Last week Sarnoff arranged another alliance with potentially vast consequences. In what would be a $140 million stock swap, he offered to absorb Prentice-Hall Inc. of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., a leading publisher of textbooks and specialized business literature. Although Prentice-Hall's 1963 sales of $68.4 million are dwarfed by RCA's $1.78 billion gross revenues, the merger could result in revolutionary advances in communications and teaching methods by linking electronics with the printed word -for instance, computer-controlled printing at fantastic speeds delivered electrically to homes and offices...
...fastback roofs. The Holiday will be 210 in. long, weigh about 4,100 Ibs., come equipped with a 425-cu.-in. engine and cost about $4,400-a price that places it in direct competition with Ford's Thunderbird, which still dominates the luxury sports-car market. To absorb some of the Holiday's development costs, G.M. is making many of its parts interchangeable with the 1966 Buick Riviera, which could be adapted to front wheel drive at a later date...
...variable in the recovery of a football player is his ability to absorb pain and continue playing. McCluskey, even after his leg was healthy enough for running, couldn't get the pain out of his mind and was ineffective until the Brown game. End Paul Barringer, with hamstring pulls in both legs, still managed to play effectively. Fadden emphasized that this ability to stand pain has nothing to do with toughness; either a player has the ability or he doesn...
...roommate having seven papers to do this week when he is so pressed that he won't learn anything from doing them? Is there any sense in my staying up until 4 every night when I am so tired and sick of everything that I can't absorb what I am doing or learn by doing it? If the object of college is the cultivation of the intellect and the pursuit of knowledge, why can't I cultivate and pursue without the guilty thought of the report I should be writing? Why does the American system of college education spread...