Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the start of his term, Carter has seemed driven to be the most liked. Instead, he now stands at 19% approval, which has broken all records in public opinion sampling-down. Carter has got up earlier than anybody and read more and worked harder to absorb more facts than any of his predecessors. Now, a lot of his advisers have been telling him that it is bad to get so burdened with the details of the world's problems...
...against the traditions of his people, whom he both loved and hated. The country that had invented the civil service would turn the Communist bureaucracy into a new mandarin class. The nation whose institutions had been shaped by Confucius into instruments for instilling universal ethics would before long absorb and transform the materialist Western philosophy imposed on it by its latest dynasty...
China has not found it easy to absorb the refugees. Said a resettlement aide in Yunnan: "Grain, meat and edible oils - these are already rationed in our country - so you can imagine the burden on the farms imposed by this huge influx of new people." The Chinese claim that finding a home for each refugee costs $1,200, a figure that covers the purchase of transportation, agricultural tools, housing and food. As a result, Peking has taken the unprecedented step of asking the U.N. for financial help in resettling the refugees who are still in the camps and those...
...Restic doesn't know how much his young team can absorb in the short preseason camp since most players have had little or no prior exposure to the flex. He's unsure how many different sets the team will be able to use. "We've got to do more things because we're small," he said. Then Restic added, "But can we do more things...
Overall, Harvard's season resembles one grand "IF." If the team avoids injury, if St. John can deliver some passing, if the lines fill out the holes, if the players absorb the Multiflex--then there may be some success...