Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is simply no way a British government could grant to several million people the right to come and live in Britain." Instead, while planning to admit perhaps 100,000 Hong Kong Chinese, London offered to enlist the U.S., Canada and Australia in a last- resort "lifeboat" plan to absorb others in the event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming out of the hall where the Foreign Secretary...
...trees go, millions of different animal and plant species will become extinct, and the information encoded in their genes will be lost forever. Moreover, deforestation can lead to local disruptions of rainfall patterns and possibly even global climate changes because there would be fewer trees to absorb carbon dioxide from...
...lopsided liberal-arts graduate" of Bryn Mawr College who joined TIME in 1965, Nash credits her fascination with such topics to a firm belief that "nothing is so difficult that it can't be understood with a little effort." Her marriage to a physicist helps, allowing her "to absorb a feel for how scientists think and operate, virtually by osmosis...
Everywhere he went, Gorbachev and his wife Raisa were besieged by cheering and excited crowds chanting, "Gorbi! Gorbi! Gorbi!" Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who faces a tough campaign for re-election in 1990, made seven appearances with his visitor, hoping, perhaps, to absorb some of the generous warmth. Gorbachev's popularity rating among West German voters is considerably higher than Kohl's; a poll taken for the weekly Der Spiegel in early June gave Gorbachev a score of +2.2 on a scale of +5 to -5, compared with -0.6 for Kohl...
...Business School's Public Management Club this week announces it will renew its effort to propose a loan forgiveness plan similar to those at the Law School and Kennedy School. The program would absorb the debts of students who take low-paying public service or government jobs after graduation...