Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infancy. No baby under six months should drink juice, and some pediatricians see no reason to introduce it until after the first birthday. Whenever they start, young children need not consume more than a few ounces a day. Because apple juice contains two sugars that tots cannot absorb -- sorbitol and fructose -- large - quantities can cause diarrhea. "Fruit-juice companies imply that apple juice is healthful," says Dr. John Udall, head of pediatric nutrition at Children's Hospital in New Orleans. "But it's probably been oversold...
...will be a great burden for South Korea to try to absorb North Korea, as it was for West Germany to absorb East Germany. I made it very clear several times that we are not interested in unilaterally absorbing North Korea. Instead we must take time and patience to move closer together. Instant gratification is out of the question. Based on this philosophy, we are trying not to provoke North Korea unnecessarily...
Mastrianni said the Dungeon is partly designed to absorb overflow customers from the blues bar upstairs, who often spill out onto Winthrop Street...
Leverett students will find Howe a strong asset, not only because he lets them see their familiar surroundings in a new way--he also runs a drawing group for students. Although they haven't had a month to absorb the paintings while they eat, students from other houses will profit from even a single meal in Leverett's newly aesthetic surroundings...
...computer-controlled systems that dynamically compensate for quake-induced motion; if an earthquake tips a building forward, these systems can activate massive weights and "thrusters" that force it in the opposite direction. Less expensive are suspension systems like the rubber- and-steel sandwich -- with a dense lead core to absorb energy -- that enabled the University of Southern California Hospital to ride out the quake like a jeep on a bumpy road...