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.
Simply put, lean means using less to do more. Lean thinking is not typically associated with health care, where waste â of time, money, supplies, and good will â is a common problem. But the principles of lean management can, in fact, work. in health care in much the same way they do in other industries.