Word: absorbingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...We’ve just been really, really careful on all of our infrastructure and administrative costs,” Rapier said. “We’ve budgeted those to be at exactly the same levels as they were last year even though they have to absorb inflation. We’ve figured out ways to save money in other places so we can hold it completely flat from year to year...
...schoolchildren. Yet the exact nature of the problem has eluded doctors, teachers, parents and dyslexics themselves since it was first described more than a century ago. Indeed, it is so hard for skilled readers to imagine what it's like not to be able to effortlessly absorb the printed word that they often suspect the real problem is laziness or obstinacy or a proud parent's inability to recognize that his or her child isn't that smart after...
...course, Probst has seen his share of duds--such as Sims Online, a multiplayer version of the best-selling PC game of all time. Sims Online garnered a disappointing 82,000 subscribers worldwide. Still, Probst can absorb the blows. At 52, he has seen it all. He is famous for rarely smiling and comes across more like a stern high-school principal than the emperor of electronic fun. But he has been the boss for 12 years and understands how to foster a creative environment. Like Harry Potter's Hogwarts, EA is divided into competitive teams; each works...
Harvard, on the other hand, can absorb the effects of the federal money changes, so that its students will not end up paying more to finance their educations...
...truth about Monica--are packaged like fragile crystal, surrounded by rhetorical Styrofoam. There are many sentences, sometimes whole paragraphs, that snooze along reflexively: "I wanted to guard the social safety net--health care, education, pensions, wages and jobs--that was in danger of fraying for citizens less able to absorb the changes resulting from the high-tech revolution and a global consumer culture." Living History is, first and last, a political memoir, and the leaden formalities of the genre apply. It is also the memoir of an active--and very ambitious--politician. The Senator is looking to augment her political...