First, absorption helps people by preventing high-energy radiation from reaching the surface which limits our exposure to harmful radiation. The atmosphere absorbs most of the radiation from the ultraviolet region through the X-ray region. The second way in which absorption helps the earth is as a heat source for it.
*lean times (ahead). Fig. a future period of lowered income or revenue; a future period when there will be shortages of goods and suffering. (*Typically: be ~; cause ~; have ~; mean ~ .) The economy is going sour which means lean times ahead.
The acronym DOWNTIME referring to LEAN methodology stands for Defects, Overproduction, Waiting, Non-utilized Resources/Talent, Transportation, Inventory excess, Motion waste and Excess processing. DOWNTIME is a way of remembering easily the 8 wastes in a manufacturing. It is one of numerous acronyms for relating the 7 or 8 wastes in LEAN methodology. Comments