Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the proposed ordinance, a neighborhood that previously could build only one facility per 5000 residents would be able to absorb a greater number of people, in several smaller group homes. Smaller community residences have two important advantages: they provide a more personal and supportive environment for guests, and they are less conspicuous in a neighborhood...
With its luck holding at Fao, Iran appeared for a time to have maintained its advantage in the prolonged war of attrition. Iran's population of 45 million is nearly three times larger than Iraq's, and its devoutly Islamic clerical leadership seems as willing as ever to absorb massive losses to destroy Saddam. If the stalemate that Iraq has achieved so far by its superiority in firepower begins to fade, both military and civilian morale are likely to sag. Observers believe that desertions within the Iraqi ranks are already on the rise. Saddam is reported to have recently decorated...
...constitution to allow direct election of the President, instead of the current electoral-college system, which allegedly favors Chun's ruling party. Chun, for his part, wants a moratorium on political reform until after the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Scoffs Kim Young Sam: "To say that the nation should absorb all the government madness until 1988 is to say that Korea could go to pieces after the Olympics...
...some colleges, no off-campus work-study is offered at all. At MIT, there simply are not enough funds to support off-campus work. "We absorb the work-study funds and it helps us with financial aid," says MIT director of student employment Jane Smith. MIT students do community service through other jobs and volunteer work, but work-study remains strictly on-campus...
Plaques are made up largely of fat, so they tend to absorb different colors of light than the protein-rich blood vessel tissue. By using a special laser beam that reacts especially well with the plaques and not with the surrounding tissue, the doctors have had unusual success in destroying fat deposits...