Word: absorber
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...juiced. With GRAPEFRUIT JUICE, that is. Just one glass helps the body better absorb certain sedatives, antihistamines and other medications. The active compound probably comes from the squeezed peel--so eating the fruit itself doesn't help much...
...tendency to produce too little dopamine--might intersect with environmental influences to create a serious behavioral disorder. Therapists have long known of patients who, in addition to having psychological problems, abuse drugs as well. Could their drug problems be linked to some inborn quirk? Might an inability to absorb enough dopamine, with its pleasure-giving properties, cause them to seek gratification in drugs...
...more flavor than the daily bread and butter of lecture. All these activities do sap energy and time that could be used for academics, but that may be a fair price to pay for the good we receive. The administration should be glad that so many extracurriculars exist to absorb the energy of undergraduates--otherwise, they would have to cope with a far higher number of summa degrees...
...economic machine also sows the seeds of its own destruction by generating an ever increasing bounty of goods while impoverishing the workers who might buy them: "Crudely stated, the technology competition leads companies to invest in more output of goods than the global marketplace of consumers can possibly absorb." The inevitable result, he predicts, will be a global depression...
...does, however, make a convincing argument that the blows of rapid economic change fall most heavily on those least able to absorb them, and that it makes sense, both economically and politically, to protect those people. He reminds readers that the economic dislocation of the '20s and '30s opened the way for the rise of fascism. One need only observe the growing strength of the far right in Europe or the strange appeal of ultranationalists in the U.S. to see how the ruthless efficiency of capitalism can create social unrest in tandem with wealth...