Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moynihan's "mini-Salzburg," recalling Henry Kissinger's own resignation threat in Austria last year when wiretapping accusations burst around him, left the Ford Administration with another wound. The President's inability to absorb one more high-level departure was exposed. Moynihan's own reputation was reduced; his threat to quit was seen as a temper tantrum with an aroma of vanity. Kissinger's authority was eroded too, since Moynihan went over his head to the President and won Ford's public backing...
Over the long run, the Harvard campaign coordinators are trying to organize an efficient organization and core of workers which can absorb the surge of volunteers expected before the primaries...
Safety Cage. Bricklin thought he could succeed by selling a car engineered primarily for safety. The Bricklin had retractable bumpers designed to absorb collisions without damage at speeds up to ten miles per hour, roll bars that made the passenger compartment a kind of safety cage, and gull-wing doors that opened by swinging up and out of the way of oncoming traffic. Those features were expensive: the car's price rose from about $8,000 in 1974 to $10,000 this year. Bricklin tried to give the car flash as well as safety appeal; he made only...
Nearly 80 per cent of South African manufactured goods exported go to African nations, and if an African boycott was imposed the South African internal market could not absorb its own produce. If Vorster can persuade the southern African nations that the South African regime will respect them and that he will work for some kind of political autonomy in Namibia, however, and if he can persuade them that his regime is a friendly one, South Africa will be protected by other southern African nations from guerilla attacks from the outside...
...scarcely impedes movement-will turn back a knife attack and anything up to a .38-cal. bullet, which accounts for 90% to 95% of all handguns in the U.S. A .38-cal. cartridge, for instance, will put a dent in the Kevlar (see cut), but the knit layers absorb the shock, leaving the imprint of the weave on the slug as it blunts into mushroom-shape and then falls harmlessly away. Small wonder that President Ford was reported wearing Kevlar on the New Hampshire hustings and that 50,000 policemen already have or will soon get the new body armor...