Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard would absorb Radcliffe's financial deficit...
...more than 18 centuries, the world's surgeons have mainly used catgut to stitch up their patients. The chief reason is that the body's enzymes can absorb catgut (actually made from cattle and sheep intestines), and the sutures usually disappear within 90 days. Because the material consists of animal protein, though, it has one flaw: it causes inflammation around the very wound it is supposed to heal...
When the debt of the group as a whole is paid off, each member of the group is freed from any obligation. If the total debt is not paid off in 35 years, Yale will absorb the loss...
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT would absorb much of what is now the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and the Agriculture Department. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT would take in parts of Commerce, Agriculture, Labor and Transportation...
...industrial and marine pollution. Jurong's multitudinous factories are being equipped with antismog devices on their smokestacks, and Singapore Harbor is policed by special patrol boats, armed with cameras, that constantly look for polluting ships. Once the evidence is collected, detergents are immediately spread on the water to absorb oil slicks or other pollutants. Offenders are heavily fined...