• Most people, I suspect, are going to use the write-offs from ELH to absorb long-term gains.

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  • Though the carbon nanotubes absorb infra-red light, they are almost totally transparent to the visible variety.

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  • The first nanoshells made by Dr West are designed to absorb infra-red light.

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  • But then Scavone saw signs of an earnings crunch as Stewart had to absorb high-priced acquisitions and faced margin pressure from less expensive cremations.

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  • But while the labor force may absorb Spanish-only employees, an emerging debate among policy makers asks whether their children face additional challenges in English-speaking schools.

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  • That attention allows us to perceive and absorb split-second insights.

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  • These days well-traveled visitors have begun to absorb its allure--rough old Maremma has been primping up.

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  • According to scientists from a smattering of institutions, the atomic-scale chickenwire material has the ability to absorb light effectively -- much like a sponge -- over a broad range of wavelengths.

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  • As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).

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  • Vitamin B-12 deficiency anemia can also occur if your small intestine can't absorb vitamin B-12.

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  • Monday's stock moves means, in essence, some investors are willing to buy a public company stock -- and absorb all its operating costs and other risks -- just to get access to private Facebook shares.

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  • Although not fissile itself, Th-232 will absorb slow neutrons to produce uranium-233 (U-233)a, which is fissile (and long-lived).

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  • The world will not--actually, cannot--indefinitely continue to absorb Chinese goods in ever-increasing amounts.

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  • America's government is working hard to revive markets for securitised debt, aware that banks lack the balance-sheet capacity to absorb all of those credit-card receivables and auto loans.

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  • Manhattan-based Lazare Kaplan has been peddling what the industry calls "ideal cut" stones--which absorb and disperse visibly more light than most finished diamonds--since the mid-1980s.

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  • Xie Qihua, the president of Baosteel, saw her company's profitability drastically reduced in the mid-1990s when the government forced her to absorb four rival loss-making steel producers.

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  • Phytoplankton -- microscopic organisms that congregate near the ocean surface - absorb atmospheric CO2 through photosynthesis.

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  • Classical music concerts and the restoration of buildings and works of art absorb about three-quarters of this money.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate culture

  • This time the biggest doubts may be about the ability of the club to absorb the would-be member.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • These tumors don't absorb the hormone-based therapies that successfully treat some tumors.

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  • Since interest payments now absorb about one-third of the national budget, this should eventually liberate lots of money to increase social spending.

    ECONOMIST: Who needs a budget, Mrs Arroyo wonders?

  • China Mobile will absorb the loss-making China Railway Communication (also known as China Tietong, or Tietong Telecom), making it an independent, fully owned subsidiary.

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  • In many respects, Mercedes are a silent partner but now they are having to absorb the knock-on effects of a situation not of their own making.

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  • But they fear that the speed of technological improvements today can wipe out broad categories of jobs faster than the economy can easily absorb and re-focus the blow.

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  • Among the future possibilities: bridges that won't buckle under severe seismic stress, a new generation of Frank Gehry-inspired forms of improbably twisted steel, car frames that can absorb the shock of head-on collisions and, yes, knives that may never need sharpening.

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  • We are not creating high-value jobs at a rate that can absorb people who are losing high-value jobs of the old economy.

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  • The suggestion is that if BA can't compete over the short-haul routes, it should leave them entirely to the no-frills carriers, which would then absorb the extra "slots" - takeoff and landing times - for their own services.

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  • There were numerous occasions when cabinet members were blamed for his decisions, making it potentially easy for them to absorb the political fall-out.

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  • So China has come to depend on exports, especially to the United States, to absorb that excess capacity -- something U.S. consumers were happy to do especially over the past decade.

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  • And if those rising corporate mortality rates were real, it would also show that banks were feeling increasingly confident that they have sufficient capital to absorb the consequential losses - which would also be a very positive sign, in that banks would also have sufficient capital to extend necessary credit to viable businesses.

    BBC: Is there good news in HMV's collapse?

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