Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is now becoming acute because storage space, which the Agriculture Department leases from private companies, is growing scarce. Moreover, once acquired by the Government, the surplus food becomes exceedingly difficult to get rid of. Social welfare programs such as subsidized school lunches and foreign aid absorb only a small fraction of what the U.S. buys each day. The U.S. could easily sell some of the rest abroad, but only at a discount. The 95? per lb. that the Government pays for dry milk, for example, is almost 70? higher than the price on world markets. Moreover, any markdown could...
Byrne's newest crisis is the virtual bankruptcy of the Regional Transportation Authority, which runs the Chicago-area bus and rail system. Byrne needs help from the state government, but she is not being conciliatory. If necessary, she says, the city is prepared to absorb the R.T.A. "as another branch of city government." A similarly defiant attitude during a transit crisis two years ago cost the system its state operating subsidy and the legal principle of equal treatment with state highways. The resulting deficit was met via a 20% increase in the city sales...
...will also set off a round of consumer spending that will do nothing but increase inflationary pressures--a sort of hyperthyroid version of the Reagan inaugural bash. One group guaranteed better times ahead under the Reagan years are the defense contractors, who will, as they did in the 1960s, absorb absurdly wasteful amounts of money. In return for this windfall, the nation will receive little: no great number of jobs because defense spending is a notoriously ineffecient way to create employment; no economic benefit because defense spending is non-productive and inflationary; and no peace of mind because the American...
There have always been critics who said that the school was growing too much and too fast. This year, some think their suspicions have been confirmed. Long before President Bok last year ordered the Masters of Public Policy (MPP) program to absorb the GSD City and Regional Planning (CRP) program, Graham T Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, argued that an expanded home was necessary. Now it's urgent...
...difficulty of being both a scholar and a mother. "I'm always hoping I'll learn to shift gears as my mother did." she said last year. "She could live every aspect of her life with great intensity--being with her children, writing--whatever she was doing would completely absorb...