• The drug takes a new tack against high cholesterol, absorbing it in the gut.

    FORBES: Schering's Kogan Talks Up Zetia

  • There was not enough loss-absorbing capital in the banks to cope with the losses they incurred.

    ECONOMIST: Bank bondholders

  • First, a stream of air is run over the absorbing material in question, which pulls CO2 out of it.

    ECONOMIST: Combating climate change

  • The drug is given on top of an existing statin, and further lowers cholesterol by absorbing it in the digestive system.

    FORBES: The Cholesterol Limbo

  • "Breach" is most absorbing, in fact, in the early scenes, where the neophyte agent is completely taken in by this facade of conservative piety.

    CNN: Review: Cooper brilliant in OK 'Breach'

  • And of course, distillers could choose to mix the impact of such a tax - absorbing some in profits, and passing some on to consumers.

    BBC: How would a Scotch whisky bottle tax work?

  • Play had resumed at 4-4 after a first session which saw the two Englishmen rack up seven half-century breaks between them in an absorbing passage of snooker in which neither man was able to establish a substantial lead.

    BBC: Carter hits historic Crucible 147

  • The story unfolds in absorbing, convincingly re-created settings: Paris (including its notorious sewers), Cairo, Shanghai and Ceylon.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • But, in his careful, modest way, Mr Fried makes some firm points about Europe's difficulties in absorbing Muslim newcomers.

    ECONOMIST: Islam, America and Europe

  • The risks are greatly magnified because all of the projected population increases will occur in less-developed regions that will have great difficulties in absorbing the changes.

    ECONOMIST: Phoenix flying high

  • In 2004, two years after it was approved, Schering-Plough scientists published a paper in Science arguing that the drug blocks a newly discovered protein that seemed to be involved mostly in absorbing cholesterol out of the intestines.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Cafod, the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church, said: "it cannot make sense to weaken the fight against financial crime by absorbing fraud investigation in the National Crime Agency, where it will inevitably be treated as that Agency's lower priority".

    BBC: SFO saved by cabinet revolt

  • In 2004, two years after it was approved, Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) scientists published a paper in Science arguing that the drug blocks a newly discovered protein that seemed to be involved mostly in absorbing cholesterol out of the intestines.

    FORBES: The Statin Showdown

  • Certainly, the figures suggest that even in a weak recovery, the private sector has had no trouble absorbing a significant fall in the number of public sector jobs, which has actually outpaced the official forecast, with a fall of 143, 000 in public sector employment since last spring.

    BBC: UK jobs figures bring good news, but also a worry

  • Acetic acid in the vinegar delays stomach-emptying and acts as an antidiuretic, remaining in the hung-over body longer than water, and allowing it to rehydrate by absorbing salt and electrolytes in the brine.

    WSJ: Half Full: The Power of the Pickleback

  • The lead changed hands seven times in all as both sets of players refused to give an inch in an absorbing contest.

    BBC: Tonga 22-20 Ireland

  • In an absorbing rather than classic fight, the judges went for Mayweather's speed and crisper punching over De la Hoya's come-forward aggression.

    BBC: Mayweather overcomes De la Hoya

  • The absorbing story, set in a desolate patch of the Mississippi Delta in wintertime, begins obliquely, as a man is found dead, a suicide, in his modest home.

    NEWYORKER: Ballast

  • In an absorbing decider, Petrova clawed her way back from 0-2 down but Williams gritted her teeth again and clinched it when the fifth seed netted a service return.

    BBC: SPORT | Tennis | Williams stuns fifth seed Petrova

  • Brown's 66th-minute dismissal for an off-the-ball clash with Rangers' Kyle Lafferty was the main flashpoint in an absorbing contest that featured an injury-time winner by the Ibrox side's Maurice Edu.

    BBC: Rangers boss unhappy over Celtic referee criticism

  • You can either while away an hour-long train journey getting lost in a paperback, or alternatively you could bury your head in some absorbing prose on a screen two inches (4cm) wide.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Click | Japanese comics go mobile

  • Mingus wrote in her absorbing book, "Tonight at Noon: A Love Story, " that I reread when I need to be lifted by both of them, Mingus used to holler to his musicians "Play yourself!"

    WSJ: Charles Mingus Lives | By Nat Hentoff

  • Like much of America during the Vietnam War, the real-life ballad of John and Yoko had a sharp political edge, which is brought to light in this absorbing documentary by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld.

    NEWYORKER: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

  • It looks increasingly as if there will be a Lords Reform Bill in the next Queen's Speech - absorbing much of Parliament's time in the coming year.

    BBC: Week ahead in Parliament

  • The Sabres were also somber knowing that forward Patrick Kaleta was taken to the hospital after absorbing a hard hit late in the first period.

    WSJ: Frattin lifts Maple Leafs over Sabres 4-3 in OT

  • Nearly all the main markets of the Swiss watch industry showed double-digit increases in 2011, absorbing more than 20 percent of Swiss watch exports by value.

    FORBES: Swiss Watch Exports Enjoy Record Growth In 2011

  • And although the U.S. itself forbids export of its stealth aircraft, they are slathered in Japanese radar-absorbing coatings.

    FORBES: Japan Weapons, Inc.

  • The plastic also acts as a chemical sponge absorbing some of the worst pollutants in the sea and increasing its toxicity when swallowed.

    CNN: Fighting the tide of plastic bags in a world awash with waste

  • Then, and only then, does this play and its classy actors show their true potential, becoming in the process totally absorbing and almost too pitiful too watch.

    BBC: Average day for Harrelson

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