Word: digester
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...that the battle is over, there are growing worries within Allied as to just how it is going to digest Bendix-and doubts all around about the merits of white knighthood in general. The corporate Lancelots usually pay a great deal more for the companies that they rescue than hostile raiders would have paid in the first place. And they must live with the results of such expensive derring-do. Too often that means coping with huge financial burdens and assimilating unfamiliar corporations. Some of the mergers may eventually work out, but few of them, at least...
...such responses to State of the Union speeches have come to be prepared over the years, by Republicans and Democrats alike. They are now writ ten and filmed before a President be gins speaking and aired only minutes after he finishes, leaving no time for anyone to digest what he actually has to say. Observes Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber: "The form that has evolved here is really intriguing. It's the speech vs. the film, then the speech vs. the film vs. the analysts...
HARVARD STUDENTS complain about everything from Food Services to scholars who last revised their lecture notes while consulting for the Eisenhower Administration. We revel in self-pity, especially when forced to digest large quantities of coursework in a short period of time. In Lowell House, some of my colleagues derive a strange pleasure from spending exam periods huddled in the dining hall, comparing the huge castles they have built out of unread history books and scientific manuals...
...rest of this century. Helms' entire adult life has been given to studying and acting against forces that would quell freedom. The problem probably cannot be solved for more than a few years at a time, a fact that Helms accepts but many Americans find hard to digest...
...unable to retain full impressions about the characters and the story. The devices rob the scenes of any potential success, because they lack focus. The movie leaves one feeling force-led. But The Wedding Party is difficult to digest. It would have been better to leave this film alone--instead of bringing these acting skeletons out of the closet...