Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Already faced with severe cash shortages, the states are less sanguine about being able to absorb a second round of cuts in social services. All but unanimously, officials argue that the slashes will remove the safety net from many whom the President would accept as being "truly needy." Admits Illinois' Mandeville...
...this "new emotion" sounds like the tactile knowledge of what being alive now, thanks to science and space probes, means: sitting on a crowded planet that is moving very fast. In such a situation, Mooney's narrative suggests, everything that happens matters to everyone. But who can absorb, much less report, everything? The author sometimes reaches for cosmic consciousness and produces more comedy than insights: "On one of the fishing boats in the cove, a young down-islander discovered he had the wrong-size replacement batteries for his transistor and flung them angrily into the water; they sank forty...
...Force in Lebanon). At the same time, Israel would remove all of its troops from the area controlled by Major Sa'ad Haddad's Christian militia, which has been working closely with the Israelis. Lebanese government forces would be allowed to take over this area and would absorb Haddad's fighters...
Buckley stuck with the Pats for more than a month. Still, getting cut hurt. "In the Ivies, you see maybe 15 defensive looks. The New England coaching staff gave me a sheet with 48 defensive alignments to memorize. It was an awful lot for a rookie to absorb...
...West Bank, they may inherit a fait accompli if they return to power. They might find the thousands of Jewish settlers, many of whom fanatically share Begin's biblical dream of a greater Israel, even more difficult to dislodge than the nearly 1 million indigenous Arabs are to absorb into Israel...