Word: absorber
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...prized tradition, there must be a lot of people like her. The British people--who, to put the case positively, have always been free of the taint of flightiness--are being asked to make a change in currency at a time when they've had only 27 years to absorb the previous change...
...revived area. The Saint of the Gutters was in her element, which more recently had become Diana's too. That is why the princess came to meet the nun, to pay her respects to the woman whose devotion to the poor and dying she was beginning to absorb...
...constructive to take the situation a bit further and figure out who did lose. My husband and I own a small business, and more than once we have had to deal with that "nice lady from the credit-card company" who tells us we have to absorb the loss. Even when insurance covers part of the cost, we and people like us still have to pay. When the insurance pays, who does Quittner think pays for the insurance? Right. We are all out those many, many cents. ANN E. GILL Orinda, Calif...
...course, had always been thinking of them--not as individuals but as a rising class. Children were at the furthest end of his ideological chain, but they were also the most powerful, for if the innocent young could absorb his policies, they were likely to be secure. As adults, children would become the misshapen world he dreamed of, and he would darken their lives forever...
Then there were friends who remembered Cunanan as charismatic, others who thought he was nuts and kinfolk who recalled the quiet boy who locked himself up with encyclopedias. It was a multifariousness he cultivated in life. Says Zeeland: "He had an amazing memory. He would absorb details from stories that people told him and recycle them...