Word: reabsorbed
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...merger merger that went into effect in June 1971 is renewable after four years. In June 1975 Radcliffe can recover its holdings, a move that will be virtually impossible since the school would have to reabsorb its debts and face a University for which coeducation has become a way of life...
...sure that his people are able to translate their research into production-line products. The research men work out problems in the lab, follow them through the production line until all bugs are ironed out. Periodically, production men, many of whom are engineers, are sent back to research to reabsorb the scientific spirit. The intermixing has produced so many workable ideas that sales have shot up from $2,285,000 in 1946 to $45.6 million last year. And with profits of $2,349,000, every employee got almost two months' pay in profit-sharing...
...came home from World War I found plenty of promises but a country unprepared either to reabsorb or support them. Veterans legislation was a hodgepodge and the Veterans Bureau was a scandal until President Harding made a halfhearted attempt to clean it up; then the bureau became more concerned with economy-those were the days of Coolidge and Hoover-than philanthropy. Veterans plunged into race riots. The jobless sold apples, and in 1932 marched on Washington. The Government drove them out with cavalry and tanks while the nation watched in shame...
...pressure for agreement was heavy on both sides. China's treaty with Russia had stabilized her external relations; agreement with Communist China would restore her internal equilibrium. Russia was preoccupied with pressing European matters, also needed time to reabsorb her Asiatic conquests. At the very least, the Moscow broadcast bespoke a willingness to agree that Mao could hardly ignore...
...When those benefits are exhausted, find relief work to keep workers going until private industry can reabsorb them...