Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physicists try to send more protons racing around the track at higher and higher speeds, increasing the power of these little bullets becomes considerably more difficult. They absorb more energy, become more massive, and the number of electrical pulses required to accelerate the protons rises sharply. It also takes increasingly powerful magnets to keep the speeding protons from flying off their curving pathway. Even though Fermilab operated only six months last year, its electric bill ran to $12 million...
...understand what the customer wants," says Stuart Madnick, a professor of management-information systems at M.I.T.'s Sloan School. "Often the customer didn't need or want the more advanced technology that others have produced. In many companies the technology has grown faster than the market can absorb...
Some of that tension is evident today. There are now 19 million people at all levels of American government, and they absorb 36% of the wealth that this nation produces. More and more, their ideas collide with a populace that finds the tax burden too great, regulations too profuse, waste too prevalent and sympathy for ordinary people too limited...
...Indiana, for example, the administration estimates that fully half of its 7,000 graduates getting their bachelor's degrees will not have positions at commencement. Says Jack Shingleton, placement director at Michigan State University: "The universities are turning out more graduates than our society is able to absorb...
Certainly the best way to humanize doctors is to humanize their training. The common aim of all efforts to reform medical education is to allow students more time to absorb and reflect upon what they learn and more freedom to pursue personal interests. Says Dean John Sandson of Boston University: "If we want our students to be compassionate, we as faculty and administrators have to be compassionate...