Yet, since the collapse of the Soviet enemy for years, the all-absorbing national priority nobody has spelled out what America's interests are.
South Korea, by contrast, has been absorbing virtually all of the upward pressure on the won by accumulating additional reserves.
The government debt-to-GDP ratio has risen from 51% in 1990 to more than 220% by the end of 2011, absorbing almost all of the rather enormous savings of the Japanese public.
There were all these layers of absorbing things unconsciously.
They then have nowhere to put all the light energy they are absorbing, and the resulting breakdown of biochemical pathways creates toxic oxygen-containing molecules known as free radicals.
In the same year, there were 143, 000 gasoline stations, 219 vehicles for every 1, 000 Americans, and an auto industry capable of absorbing 80 percent of all rubber, 75 percent of all glass, and a quarter of all steel.
As a result Britain was soon absorbing more than 50% of all inward investment in Europe, the British economy rose from the sixth to the fourth largest in the world, and its production per capita, having been half that of Germany's in the 1970s, became, by the early years of the 21st century, one-third higher.
The lead changed hands seven times in all as both sets of players refused to give an inch in an absorbing contest.
An absorbing collection of 50 vintage photographs, dating from 1902, all of which Munch took and often developed himself, using one of the first box-like Kodak cameras, attest to perhaps the artist's greatest obsession: himself.
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He dramatically improved the heat-absorbing coating wrapped around the steel bars, which is used in all solar thermal plants today.
In the process, while all currencies are debased, the floating system is failing to perform its most elementary promise: absorbing international imbalances.
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.
At the same time fisheries and vital marine ecosystems like coral are being decimated, the oceans continue to provide vital services, absorbing up to one third of human carbon dioxide emissions while producing 50% of all the oxygen we breathe.
These plastics not only serve as superior barriers to the flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide, keeping all kinds of products fresher longer, but also block out smells and prevent the packaging from absorbing any of the flavor or vitamin content of the food.
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.
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