Word: absorber
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...estimated to run at $24 billion, and 5.5 million homes have been destroyed. More importantly, the floods may have dashed the country's hopes of reaching its economic growth targets -- a deeply troubling scenario in an economy which has to maintain an 8 percent growth rate in order to absorb the millions rendered unemployed by the closure of inefficient state enterprises...
...insulin something only diabetics worry about? No. In fact, insulin is the critical hormone that allows everyone to absorb simple sugars like glucose from their food as it is digested. Most people are so good at producing the right amount of insulin that they are never even aware of its vital presence in their bloodstream...
...during adolescence, for instance, or chronic inadequate calcium intake diminishes total bone mass. Steroids taken for asthma and immunosuppressants reduce bone density. Even a lack of vitamin D, which is most easily acquired through exposure to half an hour of sunlight a day, diminishes the ability of bones to absorb calcium, a main building block. Moore would recommend an increase in the daily intake of calcium to about 1,500 mg, the equivalent of five 8-oz. glasses of milk. If calcium needs cannot be met through diet only, supplementation with calcium citrate or carbonate should be considered...
...calculations, the iceberg is huge. The 25 American banks with the largest position have more than $350 billion in credit exposure to derivatives--that's more than enough to wipe out the $250 billion in equity capital that the same banks keep on hand as a cushion to absorb losses. Few believe that Asia's troubles could jeopardize the entire amount--that would take a global, systemic collapse--but the possibility for some big hits is real. And although the losses in derivatives last year were small and manageable ($125 million), "these losses tell me that banks are taking...
...belated public spasm of political correctness--by affiliating to itself a "Radcliffe Institute." More materially, these sacrifices are to be made so that Harvard may garner unto itself all alumni/alumnae dollars--it is currently prohibited from fundraising directly from Radcliffe classes prior to 1977--and that it may absorb into itself Radcliffe's considerable endowment and not insignificant real estate. Who gains and who loses in this arrangement should be glaringly obvious, but apparently is not so to Radcliffe's administration and to many past and present students...