It established that two-fifths of the extra money poured into the NHS in 2003-07 was absorbed in higher pay.
During the flight, Gates was absorbed in The Intelligent Investor.
By the time Keller told his wife and Abramson that he was ready to leave, he had survived the morale and economic crises, but the company was absorbed in a conversation over how to charge for the online edition.
They spoke little and only occasionally, in short sentences that never became conversation or dialogue, any hint of which died a natural death, interrupted by the attention that the woman was giving to her body, in which she was utterly absorbed, and by the indirect attention that the man, too, was giving to her body, through his camera lens.
More recently, Raytheon, headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, acquired Hughes Electronics' defence operations, and Lockheed was absorbed into Lockheed Martin, based in Bethesda, Maryland.
Mr McQueen said plans were in place to speed up case handling in Aberdeen and that he was confident Haddington's work could be absorbed in the capital.
This light was tuned to be absorbed by gold and was thus converted into heat only in places where the rods had accumulated.
The region was absorbed by an expanding Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century.
Northwest Airlines was completely absorbed when it merged with Delta in 2008.
Though Hoechst, once the local chemical giant, was absorbed into sanofi-aventis of France in 1999, its Frankfurt site still churns out polymers, pigments and pharmaceuticals.
Jiangjin prospered when it was absorbed into the central part of Chongqing in 2006 as part of a government initiative to integrate outlying areas into the core city through transportation infrastructure.
The Chernobyl explosion spread radioactive iodine that was absorbed by cows and chickens and consumed by people in milk and eggs, says Linda Dahl, a head-and-neck specialist at The Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
Its Creditanstalt part was saved by the government back in 1931, before being absorbed by Bank Austria in 1997.
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Having spent most of his first two years on the job absorbed in the task of stabilizing Iraq, he was now ready to actually manage the Pentagon, so it was natural to align himself with the management principles of the new administration.
Ingestion of the short-lived isotope iodine-131, with its well-known risk of thyroid cancer when absorbed in the thyroid glands of children and young people, was the only major radiation-related health effect of the Chernobyl accident on the public.
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Shaq had absorbed the training so fast that within a year of his hire he was testifying in court and handling our most complicated cases.
When that didn't pan out, he wondered if proteins such as growth hormone could be absorbed through the lungs, a feat some articles in the medical literature claimed was impossible.
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