Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think, is either make an internal decision to be less generous or, better, ask the Federal Government -- notably the Congress -- to give some relief on these mandates because their good intentions are threatening the stability even of rich states like California. There is a limit to what we can absorb...
Given the concrete challenges that California faces in trying to absorb and appease so many diverse groups -- challenges to the school system, the housing market, the job market, the infrastructure -- it is ironic that some of the fiercest battles revolve around largely symbolic issues. Much of the tension arises from misunderstandings rooted in the clash of cultures. These days it is impossible even to formulate stereotypes about Asians or Hispanics, because those categories conceal much more than they reveal. Koreans and Japanese continue to deride one another; Peruvians resent being mistaken for Mexicans. The largest Asian group...
...California, will be happening to America before long, and to the entire world a little while after that. If you want to know whether America still works, then ask whether California still works. Does the reckless American hospitality to immigrants still accomplish its transformations and synergies? Can America still absorb so many disparate values and traditions and form them into a successful society? Or will the nation vanish into an incoherent future? Consult California...
Black lung, a condition that develops after years of breathing coal dust, gradually robs the lungs of their ability to absorb oxygen. In advanced cases, patients are tethered to breathing machines that they carry around with leather straps or on caddies. When some patients travel out of town, they must calculate the distance and how long their portable oxygen tanks will last, as if they were living underwater...
Shamir would contradict his lifelong ideology and his promises to his electorate if he gave up territory, but he desperately needs U.S. economic aid to absorb a wave of Soviet immigration that could raise his country's population by 25 percent in less than three years, and so he, too, is at the table...