• 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.

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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.

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  • "I suppose if you lay in a bath filled with mineral salts and trace elements some small part of that will be absorbed through your skin, " he says.

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  • Then again, some of those 10 schools could just as easily be absorbed into the SEC and the Big Ten to round out a radically reshaped landscape with four 16-team super conferences.

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  • It is radiating radio signals so it could interfere with the devices receiver, or some of the radio waves could be absorbed by other components and even more can be absorbed by the placement of a hand over the portion of the phone where the antennas are located.

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  • Cooking increases the share of food digested in the stomach and small intestine, where it can be absorbed, from 50% to 95% according to work done on people fitted for medical reasons with collection bags at the ends of their small intestines.

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  • That could perhaps be because the turkey and the mashed potatoes and the gravy and the cranberry jam with the Chinese broccoli absorbed it all.

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