Word: absorber
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Materials: The Stealth is made not of metal, for the most part, but of a substance that includes graphite, epoxy resins, plastic and asbestos filaments. These materials absorb and diffuse radar waves. Special radar-absorbent paints also may be used...
...Warsaw does expect to absorb the free trade unions, the defiant delegates who met in Gdansk last week promise to put up a stiff fight. Speaker after speaker denounced attempts by factory managers or local authorities to block the formation of independent unions. The most commonly cited tactic: threatening to cut off the social benefits of workers who join the new organizations. Others mocked promises of internal reform by official union leaders anxious to hold on to their original membership. Still others blasted the government for withholding information about the new unions in the press. Said a bus driver from...
WETLANDS. Those low, swampy areas along the East and Gulf coasts are better preserved than drained and built on. They absorb floodwaters and provide food for millions of minnows and shrimp, which in turn feed larger creatures. An acre of salt marsh in Georgia produces ten tons of dry organic matter every year, vs. just four tons for the most fertile hayfield. Nonetheless, 40% of the nation's wetlands have been destroyed by public and private development. Yet this attrition is slowing: as the natural benefits of wetlands become better understood, laws are being passed to protect them. Even...
...name is a polite fiction; the office is funded by Washington and staffed by State Department personnel "on leave" from their Government jobs. Though the arrangement infuriated the Taiwanese at the time, the controversy quieted as Taiwan continued to prosper commercially and the mainland made no efforts to absorb the island...
Still they come, despite a dismaying fact: the passage of time has not helped the U.S. to absorb the 120,000 Cuban refugees who have poured in since April. The problem endures stubbornly, disrupting life in Miami and southern Florida in particular, posing special difficulties of assimilation that have baffled and enraged local, state and federal officials...