Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says the Chicago Center: "Taken alone, each cut seems to be small enough to allow a recipient to absorb it with other income. Taken together, the effects of the cuts are great enough that many families will be unable to meet their monthly living expenses...
...week, including the first of 15 Special Forces Green Berets, along with weapons and equipment, the controversy over stepped-up U.S. aid continued in Washington. Former Ambassador Robert White, recently fired by the Reagan Administration, has repeatedly charged that the Salvadorans did not want or need, and could not absorb, such large amounts of new weaponry. He has also said that the Pentagon exerted considerable pressure on the Duarte regime mostly because the Reagan Administration wanted to make a big show of its opposition to Soviet and Cuban involvement in arming the guerrillas...
...have to export oil in the quantity that you can absorb in order to produce changes within the country--to create new jobs and solve the gigantic problems of overpopulation, agricultural disaster, worker's immigration to the U.S. and unemployment...
...took McKellen perhaps ten seconds to absorb all this. It took him an additional five seconds to reproduce it and just an instant more to top it. He curled his mouth so it looked like a squeezed citrus. His eyelids shut down like blinds, into a squint, his hands shriveled into a kind of angular cupped shape, somewhere between a claw and a crotch, and he started throwing off lines from Amadeus. He became, in almost supersonic succession, the man at the neighboring table, then the character he has been playing in Peter Shaffer's smash Broadway play...
...presented the "Proposition 2 1/2" budget and two other proposed budgets as well: one calling for a very slight increase over current spending which he said would allow the system to maintain a decent education, and a slightly smaller "level-funded" system that would preserve the current budget but absorb all inflation...