Word: absorbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increase the size of the fund from $5.5 million to $10.5 million and nearly double the basic pension (now $450 a month) for a five-year N.F.L. veteran at age 65. Pleading poverty, the owners refused. "There are at least three, maybe five teams in this league, which cannot absorb that cost and stay anywhere near healthy," said Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. The athletes were not convinced. Said Minnesota Vikings End Paul Flatley: "We put fans in the stands, risking personal injury, so why shouldn't we get a proportion of the profits...
When a pulse of electricity is fired through the tube, it gives off a brief, intense flash of light. Inside the ruby rod, the chromium atoms are highly excited by the light flash; their electrons temporarily absorb excess energy. Then, as the electrons fall back toward their normal energy levels, each emits a photon. Some of the photons pass through the transparent walls of the ruby rod and are lost. But many hit the mirrors at either end of the rod and are reflected back to the opposite mirror. As they bounce back and forth along the rod, they stimulate...
Rumania has been snipping away at its commercial ties with Russia, which expects to get cut-rate prices on everything from oil to agricultural products. While 80% of Rumanian exports went to fellow Communists eight years ago, the West is expected to absorb 50% this year. Rumania recently took the unprecedented step of placing a $24 million aircraft contract with a British firm instead of with the Russians. Now the Rumanians are even negotiating to join the Washington-based World Bank-the 107-nation lending organization of which no Communist country except Yugoslavia is a member...
...increase, as will the amounts required by nations for precautionary hedging against future deficits. As a nation's volume of trade expands, so does the range in which a possible deficit or surplus may lie, and unless a nation is willing to allow its exchange rate to fluctuate to absorb the surplus of deficit, the resources for financing deficits must increase. This adds up to an increasing demand for reserves at a time when the supply of gold is zero and the supply of dollars is decreasing. Faced with the alternatives of creating some sort of international currency, experimenting with...
...vaseline on my hands and arms and legs above the socks and a cigarette filter in each nostril and carefully refold my plastic bag gas mask so I'll be able to put it me, quickly with the holes at the back of my head so my hair will absorb the gas and I'll be able to breathe long enough to cool the cannister with a CO(2) fire extinguisher and pick it up with my asbestos gloves and throw it back at the cops. Someone tells me that he can't get busted or he'll miss...