Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cressman defended the ability of the parties to absorb young political activists. But he warned that "young people must expect a good long period of disappointment, frustration, and humiliation." It was a strength of the system that none came to power without "an arduous apprenticeship...
...that men leave their wives, boys forsake girls, fathers daughters, daughters husbands, families leave German Shepherds for dead on garbage heaps, the background turns Tulsa and Ada black and stormy with rushing gusts of leaves and swarms of swallows and locusts perch on your nose. Through magic arts we absorb the unfair burdens of our lovers' dreams...
...subscriptions were immediately damaged. The garment industry, which deals heavily in mail orders demanding immediate filling, was also disrupted. The telephone and telegraph became ever more valuable, but telephone facilities in New York were already taxed to capacity before the strike started. How much extra strain they could absorb was uncertain. Department stores, some of which get 85% of their accounts receivable through the mail, were cut off from their major sources of cash...
Emmons also expressed surprise that the department was able to rearrange its yearly budget within three ???? of NASA's original announcement ????rder to absorb the cost of running th????nter...
...vast array of imports that choke its harbors and shine alluringly on store shelves. Exports total barely $15 million, while imports exceed $850 million. The only thing that closes this incredible trade gap is the massive infusion of U.S. dollars. This year the South Vietnamese economy will absorb some $400 million in direct foreign aid from the U.S., another $400 million in Defense Department spending for local goods and services, and about $80 million in private spending by U.S. personnel and firms. The total is equivalent to about one-fourth of South Viet Nam's gross national product...