Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says Dr. Abdul Majid Majidi, 46, a technocrat in charge of Plans and Budget Organization, the superagency that draws up and carries out the Shah's five-year development programs: "In three years' time we will be coming into U.S. and European markets to borrow. We can absorb...
...device. In my high school, apathetic students and tired teachers banked their hopes on film, the new, fun, relevant medium. It promised to rescue us all from tedium. In history classes, especially, teachers began using films to replace the dry, outdated textbooks. Watching films became the painless way to absorb facts. But the films we watched were usually as boring as the textbooks we'd shoved aside. We watched films only to glean a few salient facts, and we never considered that films, as cultural artifacts, might be worthy of study in themselves. Films simply replaced textbooks as secondary source...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Harris gives no quarter to any journalist living or dead ("Reporters cannot believe things they cannot instantly absorb, jot down, add up and phone in ... The media treat with cyn icism or derision anything they cannot comprehend"). Since no information broadcast or printed is worth knowing, he says, people should simply ignore journalism. They will learn of really important matters through other means - conversation, literature, deduction, he suggests. Then Harris switches hyper bole in midflight, arguing that the press's preoccupation with Watergate caused it to ignore more important problems, such...
...O.P.E.C. nations, said Interior Minister Jamshid Amuzegar of Iran, expect oil companies to absorb the increase. That is most unlikely; instead, the already high price of gasoline will probably go up about a penny a gallon. In the U.S., John C. Sawhill, head of the Federal Energy Administration, denounced the O.P.E.C. move as "economic blackmail" and said it underscored the need for continued price controls on U.S.-produced oil (see following story...
This 9 per cent board hike--representing an increase in the Food Services Department's undergraduate budget to $6.5 million--should absorb the rising food costs, according to Frank J. Weissbecker, director of food services. "If all goes well," Weissbecker said last week, "the quality and the quantity of the food will not be sacrificed...