Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government taxes away too much of the wealth generated by private business and wastes it in often unproductive expenditures. Though individual industries may overproduce, supply in the economy as a whole no longer grows fast enough either to provide jobs for all the people who want them or to absorb the demand created by Government outlays. The result: the nation suffers from simultaneous unemployment and inflation...
Another year of economic stagnation. That is the gloomy picture that TIME'S European Board of Economists sees for 1981. As nations struggle to absorb rapid-fire energy price shocks from the Middle East, unemployment in Europe will climb and torrid inflation will cool only slightly. To rein in rising prices, governments have resorted to traditional tactics, in particular sharply slowing the growth of their money supplies. The result is, however, an international war of high interest rates that threatens to deepen and prolong the economic malaise. Says Hans Mast, executive vice president of Switzerland's Credit Suisse...
...refuses to deal with it--instead, tossing off witty, erudite quips about his plight. His ability to diagnose and categorize all his quirks and impulses merely intensifies his self-loathing. He realizes his compulsion to play God, to tackle the illnesses of his patients so that he can absorb their agony, thus setting them free and, in turn, reassuring himself, giving him a sense of necessity and power to compensate for sexual and spiritual infertility...
...minds of many people as somehow an institutional prop that we shouldn't throw out in an age of instability and rapid change. May be it is just one more thing that it is a little too much for people to be willing to comprehend and absorb in a relatively short period of time...
...York Times column: "Thus is the produce of the most fertile brain placed at the disposal of the masses. The most advanced mind is able to serve the humblest illiterate by being applied to contain a sneeze, to comfort some tender portion of the flesh, to absorb perhaps a dollop of fish grease which has landed on the kitchen floor...