Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact is that there are serious things going on that people here know about, I dare say care about, but don't have the energy to talk about. We absorb summer stillness from the air directly into ourselves and manage to address what most people consider "reality" only in the future tense, imagining that hazy far-off time when our mind vacations are a memory...
...public university education to a third of the actual cost. Nothing happened right away, but afterward the states got into the habit of increasing the cost of higher education whenever a recession would hit--even though recessions are exactly the times when families are least able to absorb higher bills. (Later, of course, when the recession ended, the cost would not be ratcheted back down.) In most states, rising Medicaid costs and tough-on-crime legislation that required the construction of new prisons also cut into the funds that were available for higher education...
Sadly, instead of challenging undergraduates with candid accounts of America, Harvard treats its students to more sophisticated variants of the pleasing fables they learned in high school and absorb from popular culture and the media. When they graduate, these students are unprepared to promote serious change or defy the status quo because they are not even aware of serious American dilemmas. Thus, each year, Harvard produces a bumper crop of graduates ready to climb the ranks on Wall Street or in Washington, but blind to the glaring gaps between American ideals and American reality. These graduates are committed to preserving...
...fanfare, it blows off, and the company goes on," says Kit Darby, president of Air Inc., an Atlanta information service for professional pilots. Although Air Florida eventually went under after a 1982 crash in Washington, Darby believes that ValuJet, with its firmer financial footing, may well absorb this setback. "Historically people don't think about safety," says Darby. "They want to go when they want to go at a cheap price...
...while Harvard's top three golfers performed admirably in windy conditions, the Crimson had to absorb an opening-round 83 and a final-round 87--scores which effectively eliminated Harvard from any title hopes...