Word: absorbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitious $30 million fund-raising campaign that is now stretching its tentacles out to Radcliffe alumnae is at least half-right in its approach. Half of the $30 million will go to bolster the college's endowment, and the income from that half will help Radcliffe absorb part of the rising cost of educating its students without pricing itself into a millionaires-only market. The composition of Radcliffe's student body--who come from families with a median income of $30,000 and an average income of $60,000--suggests the urgency of building the endowment and boosting scholarship funds...
...anything approaching nuclear parity. In the Brookings report, Carl Kaysen, director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, sharply challenges that view, underscoring "the futility of a quest for security" through increasing military strength. Kaysen argues that the theory of "deterrence-plus" -the maintenance of sufficient strength to absorb a Soviet first strike and still be able to devastate the attackers, with a margin of safety added-is passe. A secure second-strike capacity, he insists, is all the U.S. can realistically seek...
...common stamping ground of optimistic power, Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek came to know the texture and stink of vast administratives schemes so vicious, irrational, and irremediably tacky that they generate comedy and tragedy, like industrial waste, in awe-some volume, beyond any man's capacity to absorb without the saving intercession...
Coach McCurdy had only praise for his Crimson harriers. "Everyone said last year's team was the best Harvard ever had," McCurdy said, "but this year's team performed at an even higher level. They aimed for the top from the very beginning and managed to absorb injuries and unpredictable problems without too much trouble." With six of yesterday's seven starters (and Shaw) returning next year, McCurdy has cause for continued optimism...
...without any greater meaning, and that is easy to do. The characters in the movie are all the kind of people you would never think twice about to understand. None will even remotely remind you of Julie Christie; and there are at least a half a dozen characters who absorb the role that John Wayne plays on the American screen...