The Chicago Teachers Union has absorbed a number of recent setbacks.
Other Latin American cities, notably Mexico City, have absorbed a number of ETA members.
Meanwhile a shortage of drivers is developing, the draft and defence jobs are absorbing a number of men.
In the following years, Consolidated Gas absorbed a number of electricity generating companies, including, in 1899, Excelsior, which had changed its name to the Borough of Manhattan Electric Company.
Into this situation Christianity was injected, and in its encounter with classical civilization it absorbed a number of the critiques of the gods of the older thinkers.
In the first four decades of its existence, the corporation absorbed a number of iron-ore, coal, and steel-producing properties from coast to coast.
The program has already absorbed a number of local Taliban fighters — the Afghan project managers estimate that there are 100 former insurgents among the 1,000 workers in Pashmul, who are now working for the $6 daily wage.
In addition, governments are beginning to examine nondrug therapies in terms of their economic implications; the field of "health technology assessment" is one that absorbs a number of different disciplines in the evaluation of a wider group of therapies, and the cornerstone of this field is health economic evaluation.
He was particularly impressed with the work of a group called Bund für Menschenrechte (Association for Human Rights) and absorbed a number of Hirschfeld's ideas, including the notion that homosexual men were naturally effeminate.
Several experts agreed that the critical question may not be the number of deaths but the length of the conflict -- that people might be better able to absorb a high number of casualties in a short conflict than a steady stream totaling the same amount over a longer period.
