Light-colored "cool roofs" that reflect light rather than absorb it can cut cooling costs by as much as 40%, the group says.

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Understandably many of those depositors would rather convert to cash than absorb the cut.

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Replacing concrete with porous pavement, employing green roofs and rain barrels, restoring creeks and wetlands, and increasing tree cover can help cities absorb rain water rather than funnel it to sewer systems.

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Margins are declining, as banks absorb some of the rate rises rather than passing them on to precarious borrowers.

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Since these exporters are usually extremely keen to maintain their share in the world's biggest market, they often absorb the effect of a drop in the dollar by cutting their profits rather than raising the price.

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Europe, turning inward to absorb the former Warsaw Pact nations, made the fateful blunder of embracing the euro rather than a more aggressive program of reform in labor markets, subsidies and the like.

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