• And players should make sure the ball doesn't absorb water, since that makes it heavier, according to Dr. Plant.

    WSJ: Soccer 'Header' Impact Likened to Hard Punch

  • 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?

  • The collector also promises to do more with sunlight once it's trapped: since the microchannels should absorb more than half of the waste heat, their hot water byproduct can either be filtered into drinkable water or converted into air conditioning.

    ENGADGET

  • But we have proven able to absorb the impact the net has made since 1994, and I am optimistic about our ability to do so in future.

    BBC: Biometric keyboard

  • It was the biggest increase since June 2011, and it helped absorb the heavy flow of capital into the asset class.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Often these patients have surgery to transform bits of their bowel into bladder, but this is less than ideal since the bowel's job is to absorb fluid into the body, whereas the bladder's is to store it away before expulsion.

    ECONOMIST: Stem cells

  • 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.

    FORBES: Stones on fire

  • But the increase would be only apparent, since sellers tended to raise the prices of their goods to absorb the extra funds.

    FORBES: Anna Schwartz, Monetary Historian, RIP

  • The losers promptly launched a legal protest that was partially successful, but on the crucial issue of price realism government lawyers ruled that the Army was under no obligation to investigate how realistic Oshkosh pricing was since with a fixed-price contract the company would be obligated to absorb any overruns.

    FORBES: Oshkosh Proof That Pentagon Can Make, Or Break, A Company

  • Growth in the world economy, increased fossil fuel emissions since 2000 and a decline in the efficiency of the ocean and land 'sinks' to absorb carbon emissions.

    CNN: Topical waters

  • Guillermo Perry, the World Bank's chief economist for Latin America, says Chile is better placed than any other country in the region to absorb external shocks, thanks to its well organised budgetary institutions, prudent fiscal management (a surplus every year since 1989) and tight banking supervision.

    ECONOMIST: Chile

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