Word: absorber
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...early age, when no jobs and no other opportunities exist. “When we played cops and robbers, nobody wanted to be the police. Everyone wanted to be a robber,” the South Bronx native said. “There was a culture where you would absorb this without any philosophical discussion.”Adorned in her Boston police uniform, Baston offered a different perspective. Focusing on the lack of communication between police and urban communities, she cited a case in which Boston police attempted to provide security over a “hotspot?...
...former Treasury secretary also devoted much of his prepared speech to a discussion of the country’s current economic turmoil—in particular, yesterday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to lend up to $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase to absorb floundering investment bank Bear Sterns. Summers said that the takeover was “as dramatic an episode for the U.S. financial system as we’ve had” since the stock market crash of 1987, but he called the decision “appropriate.” Summers criticized current Treasury...
Under the deal, Allscripts will absorb Misys Healthcare, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Misys PLC and a market leader in this industry, serving more than 110,000 physicians in 18,000 practices and 600 home care providers. Going forward, Misys will hold a 54.5% stake in the new company but Tullman will remain at its helm, with the publicly traded Allscripts handling day-to-day operations. Allscripts CFO Bill Davis will also continue in his post. Last year Allscripts' revenue topped $280 million, up 60% from 2005, and its earnings reached $20 million. Despite this sales growth, Allscripts' shares...
...straightforward - compensate for an intensified greenhouse effect by reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth - but the techniques seem like pure science fiction. Just a few: using orbital mirrors to bounce sunlight back into space, fertilizing the oceans with iron to amplify their ability to absorb carbon and even painting roofs white to increase solar reflection...
...could be much worse. That's one of the implications of a new study published Wednesday in Nature that tracks the ability of streams and rivers to absorb nitrogen runoff before it pollutes the seas. A team of 31 scientists led by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee studied 72 streams in eight regions across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and found that only about a quarter of the nitrogen that spills into rivers makes it to open water, with most of the rest managed by bacteria that live in the waterways. In a process called denitrification, the microbes...