The gross profit margin shows you just how much price cuts retailers absorbed to attract customers.
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Like the rest of the emerging world, India is in a state of transition and there is much change already to be absorbed and more to come.
It's also possible, says Mathur, that the release of methane slows the transit of digested food through the intestinal tract, and that could increase the time for additional calories from digested food to be absorbed and added to the body's tally.
They have cited 14 fender benders in which those behind the wheel admitted to being too absorbed by the screen to watch the road.
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"Prior, the loss had to be absorbed by the hospital or health care provider that had to deal with non-paying patients, " she says.
Simply put, we tried to learn how to focus on one thing at a time and how to fully become absorbed in that mindful study without yielding to the thousands of thoughts that our minds can produce.
But I'm not so thrilled that Neva has absorbed our aversion to math and science.
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The Catholic Church has always absorbed such influences to some degree, which is how it has transplanted itself into so many cultural contexts over the past two millennia.
Best of all, 99 percent of the hydrocarbons absorbed were able to be recovered, meaning the sponge could be redeployed up to ten times without a drop in performance.
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The world's oceans have already absorbed a third to a half of the CO2 produced by humans, principally by the burning of fossil fuels, over the past 200 years.
They want to absorbed Russian investments in Cyprus.
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The lesson he seems to have absorbed most of all is that politicians who do not control the policy agenda inevitably find themselves responding to their opponents--at their peril.
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Rather, the relative scarcity of supply has allowed January's flood of deals to be absorbed, halting a slide in bond prices.
Ouchi is believed to have absorbed about twice the amount of radiation that is usually considered fatal, though he may survive.
Cantor seems to have absorbed a few lessons since the November election.
These layers acted like the anti-reflective coatings on spectacle lenses and caused almost all the sunlight falling on the device to be absorbed.
This light was tuned to be absorbed by gold and was thus converted into heat only in places where the rods had accumulated.
The changes are going to be felt first in hospitals, as well as schools, where an increasingly diverse child population has to be absorbed.
And will need to be absorbed into on-boarding and payroll automatically.
The only person who seemed to have absorbed the lessons of that game was a skinny little guard on the UMass freshman team named Rick Pitino.
As a result of the first world war it had been reduced to a small, impoverished country that was later to be absorbed by Hitler's Germany.
The bottom line is that the energy world has changed in a fundamental way that has yet to be absorbed by the punditocracy, or incorporated in policy.
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By tuning the quantum cascade laser and measuring how much of the infra-red radiation is absorbed on its way to a detector, hazardous gases in between can be identified.
He took the lessons he'd absorbed over the years to create his own path, at a time when the original trail seemed to be leading to a dead end.
Ackman and Namvar believe the housing market is in the process of soaking up millions of excess housing units, with about 2 to 2.5 million units still to be absorbed.
Predictably, the vision to create a ubiquitous operating system was a resounding bust, and rather than shut down Taligent, IBM quietly absorbed its failed attempt to re-create Windows and licked its wounds.
The second is the way in which fiscal policy is tightened: spending cuts are more likely to increase economic performance than tax increases, perhaps because higher revenues tend to be absorbed by profligate governments.
These options have now been ruled out for Thames Valley but, in future, mergers and takeovers should not be regarded as the last resort: it may well be the best and quickest solution for an ailing university to be absorbed by another with successful courses, high standards, good management and a strong image.
Looking to see that the children were still absorbed in the television, she kneeled next to him and began patting his pockets.
By the time Keller told his wife and Abramson that he was ready to leave, he had survived the morale and economic crises, but the company was absorbed in a conversation over how to charge for the online edition.
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