Word: absorbingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American hands-off policy might stand a chance given a strong leader in either country who could absorb the political shock of a compromise. However Ayub, already losing ground on the Kashmir issue, has had his political standing undermined by the American rebuffs. Shastri occupies the vacuum left by Nehru and thus enjoys only mild support with elections fifteen months away. In fact, peace-loving Shastri has been forced by his domestic insecurity to make the most belligerent speeches heard this year outside Peking...
...Religious life should and will be integrated in One Religion which should and will absorb or replace existing sects...
...enterprise of professional training. Such training simply cannot be properly conducted by one or two designated persons or by a small Arts and Science committee, nor can such a Committee command the requisite energy and range for maintaing relationships with schools and school people. To fragment the School and absorb it into the departments would, moreover, change the whole quality of the enterprise. In the Arts and Science fram-work, where the dominant ethos is that of advanced research and scholarship, the outlook of professional education would be relegated to a lower rank. Nor is it clear that the departments...
...traffic engineering field are plagued by the prophets who contend that despite tremendous improvement in highway design and traffic control, we are destined to prolonged congestion. These prophets conclude that a gain of 6,000,000 vehicles per year in the U.S. is too much to absorb. This is ridiculous, but it takes little to convince a disgruntled motorist that such prognostications are valid. Traffic is being handled more efficiently now than ever before, and this situation will continue to improve. Your constructive piece should alleviate many misapprehensions...
...costing users $20 million a month to carry in inventory. Many warehousers may continue ordering steel just to be safe, but take advantage of a steel industry practice: the right to cancel an order without penalty right up to the time the mills actually start executing it. Automakers, who absorb 12% of the nation's steel output, plan to work down their 80-to 90-day stockpiles slowly, thus lessening the economic impact; General Motors will take six months to return to its usual 20-day supply, and Chrysler will stretch the shrinkage over four or five months...