Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem is space. Just 15 years ago, the average steer in the U.S. had about 86,000 sq. ft. of open range to roam in. The land could absorb excretion; natural processes converted it to fertilizer. Today the steer is likely to be crowded into outdoor feed lots with only 200 sq. ft. of living space. Feed lots, where livestock is scientifically bred and fattened for slaughter, were rare in the early 1950s. Now there are 256,000 for cattle alone, and a single facility containing 50,000 head is not uncommon. Since these feed lots are concentrated near cities...
...things the two sides have agreed on. "Jarring has a remarkable capacity for registering a conversation with all its nuances," says an Israeli diplomat who has dealt with him. "He must have a built-in tape recorder in his mind; he can sit for hours and absorb what he is being told, and report it without the slightest deviation...
...simply can't absorb all that cost and survive ourselves," Zavelle said...
...ticket. Aren't the ironies strikingly obvious by now, even to the capitalists? Or could they be just crazy enough to destroy themselves for a little more of our gold? Sadly, they are not. Bourgeois democracies expect and even rely on a certain amount of safe "dissent" they can absorb gracefully and thus maintain the dynamic equilibrium that is their power base...
...imprecision that there must be a "just settlement of the refugee problem." At issue is the future of the Palestinian Arabs, many of whom fled from Israel in 1948 or 1967; their numbers have grown from 1,000,000 to 2,500,000. The Arabs maintain that Israel must absorb those who choose to return and pay compensation to those who do not. Israel maintains that 1) the Arabs no longer own the land they held before 1948 and therefore cannot claim it, 2) the return of so many refugees would alter the character of the country, and 3) there...