Word: absorber
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Warning against limited graduate school or professional careers. President Bok yesterday, urged a baccalaureate service audience of 600 seniors to seek lives that "continuously engage all of your interests and absorb all of your energies...
Whether the Reagan proposal can be the basis of serious negotiation depends largely on three factors: 1) whether the Soviet leadership, in the midst of its transition to the post-Brezhnev era, can absorb what may initially come as a shock, then respond with a constructive counterproposal; 2) whether the Reagan Administration is prepared to make substantial compromises in the negotiations for an eventual agreement; and 3) whether the Congress will continue to support the Administration's extremely expensive defense plans, which constitute the "or-else" inducement for the Soviets to bargain...
...instead of in a cathedral at midnight. Every Kirov dancer and musician knows a common musical idiom as well. The orchestra takes blithe liberties with tempos-flying allegros, subaqueous adagios-that are a shock to ears accustomed to stricter counts. One needs an entire performance of Swan Lake to absorb the confident, even radical, musical style...
...American Government or pre-Communist regimes in their countries, or if they can prove they are political dissidents. In an explanatory message to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, the State Department argued that the U.S. does not have "an unlimited capacity to absorb all of those who depart their homeland in Indochina...
Senator Edward Kennedy, a leading advocate of an immediate nuclear freeze, took particular issue with Reagan's assertion that the Soviets could "absorb" a U.S. retaliatory blow "and hit us again." Said Kennedy: "In the event of a Soviet first strike, the U.S. would still have at least 3,500 warheads to retaliate, enough to make Soviet rubble bounce from Moscow to Vladivostok." President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, voiced a common view: "The strategic balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is one of ambiguous equivalence-in some respects we are ahead...