Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fare increases, deteriorating service and alleged financial improprieties, and then refused to renew his franchise. He bought control of Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a respected construction firm, and in half a dozen years had raised its net worth from $8 million to $132 million. He also used the firm to absorb companies that made everything from ships (the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk) to movies (The Babe Ruth Story). He failed in efforts to buy the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Washington Senators and the Baltimore Colts...
...element, needed to make hemoglobin, is stripped out in the grain-milling process. But disturbing news from Sweden suggests that too much iron may trigger a serious and often fatal hereditary illness. It is an iron storage disorder called hemochromatosis, and it causes its victims, mostly male, to absorb too much iron. Possible results: liver disease, diabetes, impotence, sterility, heart failure, even sudden death...
Before leaving for Washington, Dayan had stressed his government's opposition to the sales package, adding: "Even if we have to absorb the punishment, we will continue to oppose the deal." He apparently was referring to repeated warnings by U.S. officials and concerned American Jews that a battle with the Carter Administration on a matter so related to U.S. energy needs, because Saudi Arabia is involved, could cause severe and lasting damage to Jerusalem's relations with Washington. Some influential American Jews warned the Israeli government privately that it could probably win on this issue...
Rooftop panels or collectors made of glass and copper pipe. Liquids in the pipes absorb the sun's heat, and are then circulated to a storage tank that feeds heat to household living areas and water supplies...
...more work than they actually had to," she said. "Most of them want to go to good colleges, but they don't seem to really want to learn more than is required." She found that many students came to class unprepared, ready only to absorb the teacher's monologue...