Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Religious life should and will be integrated in One Religion which should and will supplement, absorb or replace existing sects...
...Edgar Faure. More important, Pompidou, a former classics teacher, has definite ideas on education. He has promised to "restore the authority of teachers and professors." Pompidou is known as a "selectionist"-one who believes that universities should turn out no more graduates than industry and the public service can absorb...
...supply and demand" or "an economic fact of life." We cannot be satisfied merely to remark that the lack of adequate housing at reasonable prices is a natural consequence of the fact that more people want to live in Cambridge than the number of units available can absorb. New construction to expand the supply of housing is a need for the highest priority, but not simply so that more people can live here. We must protect the ability of long-term residents of Cambridge to stay here. What we must do, as a matter of public responsibility, is to insure...
FIRST, THEY must build more housing for their students and faculty because the available housing simply cannot absorb them, and because the students themselves cannot really be served the housing market they find in Cambridge. When they do enter it, they are forced to accept housing conditions fully as bad as those experienced by other residents. This is equally true of single or married graduate students and younger faculty or staff members, who often live on genuinely moderate incomes...
...York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes--in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step, I began to absorb the issues of the strike--ROTC, Afro-American Studies, expansion--and could see nothing objectionable and a lot of good in the positions staked out by the first mass meeting...