Word: absorber
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...have to export oil in the quantity that you can absorb in order to produce changes within the country--to create new jobs and solve the gigantic problems of overpopulation, agricultural disaster, worker's immigration to the U.S. and unemployment...
...took McKellen perhaps ten seconds to absorb all this. It took him an additional five seconds to reproduce it and just an instant more to top it. He curled his mouth so it looked like a squeezed citrus. His eyelids shut down like blinds, into a squint, his hands shriveled into a kind of angular cupped shape, somewhere between a claw and a crotch, and he started throwing off lines from Amadeus. He became, in almost supersonic succession, the man at the neighboring table, then the character he has been playing in Peter Shaffer's smash Broadway play...
...presented the "Proposition 2 1/2" budget and two other proposed budgets as well: one calling for a very slight increase over current spending which he said would allow the system to maintain a decent education, and a slightly smaller "level-funded" system that would preserve the current budget but absorb all inflation...
...Government taxes away too much of the wealth generated by private business and wastes it in often unproductive expenditures. Though individual industries may overproduce, supply in the economy as a whole no longer grows fast enough either to provide jobs for all the people who want them or to absorb the demand created by Government outlays. The result: the nation suffers from simultaneous unemployment and inflation...
Another year of economic stagnation. That is the gloomy picture that TIME'S European Board of Economists sees for 1981. As nations struggle to absorb rapid-fire energy price shocks from the Middle East, unemployment in Europe will climb and torrid inflation will cool only slightly. To rein in rising prices, governments have resorted to traditional tactics, in particular sharply slowing the growth of their money supplies. The result is, however, an international war of high interest rates that threatens to deepen and prolong the economic malaise. Says Hans Mast, executive vice president of Switzerland's Credit Suisse...