Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rich J. Olendzki, associate dean for Financial Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine, said Friday that adequate funds, mostly in the form of loans, will be available to help students absorb the additional costs...
...fluorocarbons highly inert substances that have the ability to absorb extraordinarily large amounts of dissolved gases performing the oxygen carrying function of red blood cells...
...used to work for J. Walter Thompson, replaces John Ehrlichman as executive director of the Domestic Council. The post will not be as significant as it used to be, because the council has lost several members who have moved to the executive departments. It will, however, absorb the Intergovernmental Council, which was headed by Spiro Agnew during the first term. Ehrlichman, meanwhile, will remain the President's chief domestic policy aide, leaving day-to-day management to Cole...
Grumman Chairman E. Clinton Towl insists that the rising costs are not the company's fault. He blames unexpectedly rapid inflation and the steady loss of other defense work, which made remaining projects more costly by forcing them to absorb more of the corporation's overhead. Grumman was hurt by termination of the moon-exploring Apollo program and the loss earlier this year of the prime contract for the $2.6 billion space-shuttle. Grumman sales in the first nine months of 1972 dropped 26% below the 1971 period, to $475 million, and profits dived 90%, to $1.4 million...
...forging an unbeatable coalition for the general elections next March. But the coalition came apart almost as quickly as it had been formed, and there were rumblings of even more difficult times to come for el Lider. As one diplomatic observer put it: "Perón thought he could absorb Argentina; instead, Argentina has absorbed...