Word: absorber
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...fraction of those who apply. While China is by no means a liberal democracy, its dissident intelligentsia is far less visible and vocal than Moscow's. Indeed, Peking is probably willing to release more of its nearly 1 billion citizens than the rest of the world could possibly absorb. Thus it would be easier for Carter to extend MFN to China than to the Soviet Union. However, in the interests of evenhandedness, the Administration wants to seek MFN for China and the Soviet Union at the same time, and it would prefer to do so much later this year...
Albert M. Sacks, dean of the Law School, said yesterday he plans to review the new calendar after the end of the winter term. "Some students might not be getting enough time to absorb the material in concentrated courses," he said...
Enough! We can't absorb the surplus population of the entire world! Leave the Vietnamese and the Cambodians [Dec. 4] in Southeast Asia. Help to keep them from starving, yes, but send the help there. Political situations change. Perhaps they can be repatriated in a few years, but if they are brought here, we will be stuck with them forever...
...that an undergraduate college is not the place for a professional conservatory, that the job of a college is to "arouse an appetite for the arts" and "a respect for excellence and a sense of humility." Colleges should function, he writes, "as a substitute for the culture that Europeans absorb quite naturally from their home and their society...
...billion; and Medicaid, with outlays of $12 billion. But now OMB is preparing a set of proposals for Congress that would tighten requirements for entering these programs. Such changes, OMB estimates, would save as much as $1 billion in fiscal 1980. HEW, which has learned that it must absorb one-third of the overall budget cut, cannot possibly accomplish that without changes in basic programs...