Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most visitors will agree, even if they find the presentation exhausting and nearly indigestible, streamed as they must be through the galleries at a speed dictated by an attendance of 8,000 people a day.* In such circumstances, no one can absorb the scope and the depth of the man. How can one "see" in two hours what took nearly 80 years of such obsessive activity to produce? The "Tut Law," or curse of the mummy, by which works of art become invisible as the museum audience for them expands, will work against this show. That is all the more...
Such industriousness has earned the Cubans considerable respect, but with a new wave of 5,000 to 6,000 immigrants expected, there is a fear that the local economy can no longer absorb them. North Jersey Congressmen, mayors, clergymen and community leaders met last week to form a committee to request federal aid for the resettlement. Says Union City Mayor William V. Musto: "There's no comparison between the economy...
...city manager apparently has the council votes right now to keep the $6 million out of his budget. If that support holds, the school committee will probably be forced to absorb the costs and return to the city council with a supplemental budget later in the year...
District 65, a United Auto Workers affiliate, also differs with Cohen over holidays and health care. The union has asked that Cohen pay in full for an employee health plan to replace the present arrangement under which workers absorb half the cost...
...oilfields have cut shipments this spring to something less than 1.5 million bbl. a day. Nevertheless, no signs of a looming squeeze on world supplies have appeared. Says a top Department of Energy official in Washington: "Given the current world demand for oil, the market could completely absorb a total loss of Iranian exports. The situation would be precarious, but it would be manageable...