Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Domestically, Sentinel is most objectionable because it distorts national priorities and absorbs billions of dollars that should be invested in our cities. As Vietnam costs diminish, the arms racers stand poised to absorb the financial bonuses which belong in a re-structured program against poverty...
...these children sometimes become dwarfs is unknown. Some researchers suspect the pituitary gland, the body's governor of growth. Others believe that continuous anxiety makes a victim's digestive system less able to absorb food. Although doctors see a connection between a baby's mental state and growth, they cannot yet show how an emotional problem becomes a physical one. They do know that no matter how deprivation dwarfs thrive in a hospital, the spurt often ends when they return to the homes that started the trouble...
...ever enough to take care of all those who, like Oliver Twist, ask for more. In the next 18 months, the probable area of savings-about $2 billion-is not enough to take care of the demands of the cities, of education and of welfare that could easily absorb the anticipated dividend from the end of the Viet Nam war. But to raise taxes in the interim might well impede the growth of the economy, on which the maintenance of prosperity depends, and with it the hope of improving American society. The President probably cannot lower military expenditures...
...predicted that there would be additional use of the computer because of "an enormous increase in storage capability." Dix said that the additional revenue from user fees should easily absorb the $70,000 per month leasing cost...
...note of exhortation: the writing style, high socrelese, is not impenetrable. On the contrary, should one absorb the idiom it can be remarkably effective. It is worth the effort...