Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been frozen by Communist leaders who feared that contact with the West would undermine their hold on their people. In the West, Bonn made detente impossible by refusing to acknowledge the loss of a huge chunk of its land to Poland and by stridently insisting that it would absorb East Berlin's Communist regime in an eventual German reunification. Willy Brandt is the first West German statesman willing to accept the complete consequences of defeat: the lost lands, the admission of moral responsibility, the acknowledgement of Germany's partition. In the process, he is also challenging the Communist countries...
...trend alarms many merchants, who point out that pilferage now costs them-and their customers-2½? out of every dollar of sales. Insurance executives, defending themselves against the public outcry over mass cancellations of burglary and fire policies, argue that private companies can hardly be expected to absorb the cost of crime and urban violence...
...University Account (despite its substantial deficit) will absorb the current anticipated annual Radcliffe deficit of approximately $250,000, we believe it possible for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to absorb whatever portion of the anticipated increases in the Radcliffe deficit cannot be met by increased giving and by the savings which would be achieved by some of the changes we recommend...
...major financial advantages of merger are still there. Harvard will absorb Radcliffe's gaping $250,000 deficit, although it is warning its sister to keep the alumnae gifts coming in. Consolidation of such administrative services as Buildings and Grounds should cut down substantially on Radcliffe's future deficits...
Epps feels enough vacancies will occur by the end of the semester to absorb any Harvard men wanting to move back to the Houses. "Vacancies depend on leaves of absence and withdrawals and we think there will be enough ? them. We have people leaving every week for various reasons...