High prices tend to encourage oil companies to go out and look for more oil, invest more heavily in exploration technologies, and those usually bear fruit in the form of massive volumes of new oil, which depresses the price.

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They bear on the question of how galaxies form and, indeed, on the fate of the universe.

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Bear markets brought on by financial catastrophe in the form of fraud, leverage and greed are the financial markets version of a haunted house.

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The people that will bear the burden of the tax are the workers in the form of lower wages.

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As the tax hike obviously would not raise worker productivity, employers would be unwilling and unable to bear the tax, and it would be passed on to workers in the form of reduced wages or benefits.

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Owners of the Xperia Play, it's time to curl up with a teddy bear and your favorite ice cream -- just as long as it's not in sandwich form.

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From a policy perspective, manufacturers are in a better position to initially bear the costs of prevention and insurance and can pass the costs on to the public in the form of higher product prices.

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Those calling for immediate action may be right that losses should fall mainly on creditors in the form of higher inflation and fiscal transfers since the alternative of forcing citizens of indebted countries to bear the cost of adjustment is politically impossible and likely to lead to a collapse in the euro.

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