Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blizzard of statements, he proclaimed himself Prime Minister of the "unitary state of North Borneo," and demanded support for his rebellion from world leaders. The only encouragement came from Indonesia's Sukarno, who has long coveted Brunei's oilfields and would like nothing more than to absorb the protectorate into Indonesian Borneo...
Wait for Evidence. Medical scientists' best guess as to how thalidomide damages the fetus is that rapidly dividing cells mistake it for either glutamic acid or a B vitamin, absorb it, and fail to develop normally. In theory, thalidomide might block the metabolic processes of rapidly dividing cancer cells by the same mechanism. But thalidomide failed dismally in its first routine trials against animal cancers in the U.S., and has shown no promise in more detailed tests now in progress...
...York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston: "If spending reductions cannot be made concurrent with tax-fate reductions, then it would certainly appear wise to at least hold expenditures at the 1963 budgetary level, so that as the economy grows, both federal spending and taxes would begin to absorb a progressively smaller share of national income...
...that, perhaps, the point of the whole elaborate joke? 'Poonies pretending to laugh at Fleming while really laughing at an audience which will absorb a flimsy replica as readily as it will absorb the real thing? 'Poonies making money by pretending to destroy a money-maker? The whole structure and meaning of parody begins to crumble, and the poor aid mind reels...
That is all there was to it. The operation of the pile depended on natural properties of 1) uranium, which normally emits neutrons at a steady rate, 2) graphite, which slows neutrons down but does not absorb them, and 3) cadmium, which absorbs neutrons very effectively. As the control rods were withdrawn-so the experimenters figured-fewer of the neutrons from the uranium would be absorbed, and therefore more fission would occur. At some point of withdrawal, fission would be producing new batches of neutrons faster than the cadmium would be absorbing them. Result: a chain reaction...