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Word: absorber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...definite margin of superiority," he said. "I think that a freeze would not only be disadvantageous-in fact even dangerous-to us with them in that position, but I believe it would also militate against any negotiations . . . The Soviets' great edge is one in which they could absorb our retaliatory blow and hit us again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deadly Dilemma | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...earning only an average of 10.1%. Richard Pratt, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, said last week that about 80% of the 3,900 federally insured savings and loan associations lost money in 1981 and that some 400 of them will run out of capital to absorb losses by the end of the year unless interest rates fall sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striving to Boost Savings | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Even if the President, for whatever reason, chose to "absorb" a Soviet first strike, thereby sacrificing most of his ICBMs, the destruction sustained by the U.S. would be immense?as many as 20 U.S. would be immense?as many as 20 million killed, and perhaps twice that number wounded. Would the President consider that a "surgical, Limited strike" and respond accordingly? Or would he order a devastating retaliation from his missile-firing submarines? At least 15 of those boats would be untouched and undetectable, deep at sea, each carrying at least 16 missiles, each missile tipped with eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living with Mega-Death | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...Office, I found Nixon alone with his back to the room, gazing at the Rose Garden through the bay windows. I knew the feeling from the time when as a boy I had to emigrate to a foreign land: attempting to say goodbye to something familiar and beloved, to absorb it so that one can never be separated from it. In the process, sadly, one loses it; the self-consciousness of the effort destroys what can only be possessed spontaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: THE SMOKING GUN | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...fourth quarter. The company plans to cut its Seattle work force by 5,000 people. Reduced demand for airplanes also forced McDonnell Douglas last week to cancel a deal with Fokker BV of The Netherlands to build a 150-passenger jet. The St. Louis company expects to absorb a $50 million loss on DC-10 orders that Laker Airways had placed but cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst Year for U.S. Airlines | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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