Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personnel from the Environmental Protection Agency surveyed affected areas to assess the impact of the spill on fish and wildlife, the beaches of Casco Bay's islands were strewn with hay, as were the affected waters. The hay was expected to absorb much...
...Psychologist Earl Schaefer of the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health is also wary of saying that the home alone is the best environment. But, like the Moores, he argues, "until a child has developed language skills, interest and an ability to look, listen and absorb, he should not have a structured environment forced...
Those unfamiliar with the field may suspect that magazine publishers are simply crying wolf, that they could, if necessary, pass the extra cost on to readers or advertisers. But in an era of rising costs, many readers are unwilling to absorb a disproportionate hike in price. As every circulation manager can testify, a steep increase in subscription rate invariably means a lowering of circulation. Yet it is the size of their marketplace that permits America's big magazines to assemble large, highly skilled staffs and broad research and technical facilities and to produce quality editorial material at low cost...
OPERATIONS MANAGER MURPHY expressed similar sentiments. "From the first," he said, "our aim has not been to make profits. It is not our intention that every book will make money. However, we hope that the successful books will absorb the losses of the less successful ones. We hope our tracking system will allow us to insure this more efficiently...
...usable, but no one is sure how best to collect sunshine and transform it into power. In answer, Aden and Marjorie Meinel of the University of Arizona have proposed a "solar farm" that would cover 5,500 sq. mi. of desert with rows of black steel bands. These would absorb the sun's heat and send it to large storage "batteries" of molten salt, which would power turbine generators. Cost of building a 3,000-kw. demonstration plant: $10 million. Despite the amount of land that such projects would take, most scientists agree that, given research funds, solar power...