Word: absorbingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...residents who escaped the fire will face a new kind of worry: the burned-off watershed has left nothing to absorb the inevitable heavy winter rains. As certain as there are wild winds in Malibu, there will soon be floods...
...Many Cars? Automen last week were brimming with optimism that 1957 car sales will rank second only to the 7,400,000 of 1955. Predicted G.M.'s Curtice: "The industry in 1957 should produce and the domestic market absorb approximately 6,500,000 cars and 900,000 trucks. Including export, production should approximate 8,300,000 cars and trucks." Curtice candidly admitted that a year ago he had been overoptimistic in anticipating a 6,500,000-car year for 1956. But this year, said he, "the supply of new cars in the hands of dealers on Jan. 1 will...
FREE LIFE INSURANCE is gimmick being offered by banks, savings-and-loan associations, to attract new savings accounts. Banks insure life of depositor in amount of his savings, up to $5,000, usually require no medical exam. Some banks absorb premiums, others cut savings interest to make up the premiums...
...purpose of the plan would be to experiment with new educational ideas and develop a pattern by which first-rate private training can be extended to a larger number of qualified college students. The new college would presumably be launched without endowment, so that tuition would have to absorb most of the costs, with the deficit to be made up by the community in which the college is located. If successful, these new methods could be applied to finance a large-scale program of privately administered collegiate expansion...
...must be emphasized that any approach must represent the civilized countries of the world, acting through the U.N., not just the United States, acting unilaterally. If economic sanctions were adopted, the U.S. would have to stand ready to absorb much of the trade that would otherwise go to Russia, or else risk economic collapse among our allies...