Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocky's opposition tried to stall the bill until next January, claiming that they had not had time to absorb and study the 38-page legislative text. But even some Democrats admitted that the bill was sound and the shelters needed. Concluded State Senate Republican Leader Walter Mahoney: "Thank God we have a Governor with the courage and vision to say. 'This is the right thing to do, and let's do it regardless of political consequences...
Fusty Classicism. Eakins (rhymes with makin's) had the kind of whole-souled character that let him absorb rebuffs and carry on with total concentration. The son of a Philadelphia teacher of penmanship, he whisked through school so fast that he had an A.B. in 1861 at the age of 17. He loved to hunt, fish, swim, sail and skate, and he was good at all these sports. But he loathed the fusty Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where pupils spent week after week copying classical statues. To get a firsthand knowledge of anatomy, he took courses...
...increased draft quotas, the average age of inductees is, of course, declining. Now it is 23; in a few months it will be 2 and one half. Unless there is a war, however, it is hardly likely to decline to 18 or 19; moreover a wealth of voluntary programs absorb many of the nation's youths in the 17-to-19 age group. These programs, and other voluntary programs, will be discussed in an article tomorrow...
Obviously, in the absence of controls there would be no surplus. The prices of some grains might drop to rather low levels, but there would always be someone to buy the commodities. For example, food processing companies, hog raisers, and whiskey manufacturers could absorb more. Indeed, in a system free from vagarious government supports private speculators would undoubtedly hoard cheap grain in years of exceptional abundance, contributing to price stability. When manufacturers are confronted with a glutted inventory of a particular product, they must either cut prices, shift to production of another product, or eventually go out of business. Clearly...
...Will the Harvard College of the future be, in effect, simply a pre-professional school whose student are expected to absorb as rapidly as possible the material deemed necessary for entrance to the next phase of professional training...