"The deficit will be reduced by the cyclical expansion that is now under way, which will absorb spare capacity in the economy, " Charles Collyns, deputy director of the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department, told reporters.
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.
The U.S. bulk power system, at an aggregate level, has adequate spare capacity to absorb potential retirements.
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And in this risky world, that capacity to absorb risk and to price risk should be worth more.
The extra capital was needed "to ensure sufficient capacity to absorb losses and sustain lending", the FPC said.
It has a proven capacity to absorb large numbers of migrants.
American K-12 education has an infinite capacity to absorb money, even to go through the motions of doing what the donor wants--so long as the outside funding lasts.
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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Quite how near was signalled by the ratings agency Fitch yesterday, which said that OBR's forecasts of rising government debt had reduced the UK's capacity to absorb further shocks and retain its AAA rating.
The effect of these strengthened winds whipping across the sea surface is to bring deeper, more carbon-rich water up from below, thus reducing the surface layer's capacity to absorb more CO2 from the air.
At the same time, we will have to face a new challenge: reintegrating the long-term unemployed into a job market that has the capacity to absorb them, but who may now have significant skills gaps.
And so, arguably, three, four, five years ago people became unmoored from their long-term risk tolerances and became purely return-seeking and, now, I think, are in more cases, frankly, being more thoughtful about their capacity to absorb losses.
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).
"Up to now, they have had the capacity to physically absorb the additional numbers, " said Mr Hardwick.
But people get bombarded with tons of different inputs, new data, new goals, new strategies and the available brain capacity folks have to absorb one more new thing, gets ever smaller.
And it does not boost the long-term capacity of a bank to absorb losses without defaulting.
So long as the capacity of the forests to absorb CO2 outweighs the amount released, there will still be a carbon credit.
In a way, that government funding was more trouble than it was worth for A123, because it was used to build a spanking-new factory in Livonia, Michigan that added huge capacity before the automakers were ready to absorb it.
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