Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great strength--the thing that made all htis work--is his personal approach to problems and the way he comes across to people. "John Monro was always there, and he enjoyed talking and turning over ideas," says one administrator. A Faculty member put it this way: "He tries to absorb as much as he can and give people different perspectives. He has a quality of engaged detachment." Monro could talk to people for hours without tiring or abandoning the conversation in frustration. "The first time I went in to see him," recalls one student, "I expected to stay for about...
...thinking team-because Russell encourages them to be. "We're all invited to participate," says Guard Jones. "We help him keep track of team fouls and individual fouls. We keep our eyes open for switches the other team might make." Not that Russell necessarily accepts the advice. "I absorb the intelligence," he says, "but the decisions are made by the man in charge...
...student begins to show fatigue. At that point, another instructor joins in, grills him on the day's words. In this "breakdown" period, the student may rebel, laugh, refuse to talk, curse his tormentor-but it is a time, insist the teachers, in which he can almost unconsciously absorb the toughest problem of a new language, such as complex tenses. The day ends at 6 p.m., after a 20-minute review. Then the student takes home two more hours' worth of reading and composition assignments...
...agreed to talk it over with Interior, but there were signs that the industry would hold its own line rather than the Administration's. Cabling in reply, Phillips Petroleum President Stanley Learned told Luce that he "appreciated your concern" but felt that the industry could not "continue to absorb cost increases." Sinclair, citing higher costs and depressed prices over the last decade, also said nothing doing...
...governments of Pakistan, Argentina, Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia, and Greece. And it is reaching the limits of its capacity. "The DAS can undertake additional field projects in the near future only at the risk of reducing the quality of advisers overstraining its management capacity, and minimizing opportunities to absorb and disseminate the experience gained in the field," Gustav F. Papenak, Director of the DAS, explains...