Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jewett said he hopes to set up meetings with students in the Houses this spring to determine the maximum level of work-study time and post graduate debt students feel they can absorb...
...weeks after the far-reaching agreement that settled the U.S. Government's seven-year-old antitrust suit against the company, AT&T officials are still trying to absorb all the implications. After 48 years as the world's largest corporate monopoly, Ma Bell faces the prospect of being freed from federal regulation to compete, like any other company, in whatever businesses it chooses to enter. The consequences for consumers and businesses alike are certain to be historic. Says Ralph Acampora, an investment analyst for the New York City brokerage firm of Kidder Peabody & Co.: "It is Gulliver...
There are fears that any new surge in interest rates, which many economists predict will occur perhaps as early as the summer, could eliminate one-third of the U.S. thrift industry. That would strain the Government's capacity to engineer the rescue mergers needed to absorb insolvent S and Ls. Says an official at the Federal Reserve: "If rates start to turn up again, then 1982 will be the crunch year. A lot of existing thrifts simply won't make...
...ranging from savings accounts and stocks to insurance. This year several of the largest U.S. companies went further in that direction by moving to acquire investment firms. American Express snared Shearson Loeb Rhoades; Prudential Insurance purchased Bache; Sears reached a preliminary agreement to buy Dean Witter; BankAmerica plans to absorb Charles Schwab...
...make a limited comeback, and those prisons that do offer jobs have too few available and generally pay less than $1 per hour. Undeterred by those difficulties, Burger said, "I cannot believe that this great country of ours-the most voracious consumer society in the world-could not absorb the production of even as many as 100,000 prisoners...