Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel insurance arrangement, just in case the company does not get enough orders to break even. Douglas' subcontractors will pay the cost of developing the components that they will supply for the DC-g. If the plane makes money, they will share in profits; if not, they will absorb much of the loss. Douglas has already signed an agreement with the largest DC-9 subcontractor, de Havilland of Canada, under which de Havilland will supply $65 million worth of wing, tail and fuselage section at its own risk. Young Douglas expects the rest of the six major...
...temperature. Special filters allow only a very narrow band of the infrared, between eight and 14 microns, to fall on the thermistor. The filter rejects the shorter infrared waves omitted by the sun and reflected by the moon. The earth's atmosphere, where water vapor, ozone and carbon dioxide absorb other portions of the infrared, also acts as a sort of filter. However, one can easily derive the temperature of the moon from the intensity of infrared radiation in the band transmitted between eight and 14 microns...
...employment has risen only 17%, while the work force has climbed 21%. In the 1960s, workers under 25 will account for 26 million new arrivals in the labor market-"a far greater number," says the President's report, "than the country has ever had to educate, train and absorb into employment in any previous ten-year period." Some 7.5 million of them will not even have finished high school, and will be seeking unskilled jobs at a time when the number of jobs for the unskilled is steadily declining...
Indonesia knows that a pro-Western, anti-Communist federation would put a serious crimp in Sukarno's ambition to absorb oil-rich Brunei and its two neighbors. He also is anxious as usual for an issue to deflect mounting public criticism over Indonesia's growing economic crisis. Fearing that Sukarno is itching to start something, Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman appealed to London for reinforcements. The British obligingly put 2,000 crack troops on a 72-hour alert to reinforce its Southeast Asia forces, because of "the possibility of outside interference...
...what we've done before--absorb extra freshmen and perhaps some extra growth," Monro said. He pointed to the size of the present freshman class as evidence of the overcrowding...