61.   Rookie Don Wengert absorbed the loss in his major-league debut, working two innings and giving up one run.

62.   She also knew that universities were less and less willing to absorb big losses from university presses.

63.   Silicon Valley has typically drawn high-risk investment in new companies by venture capitalists seeking profits, but they are usually well-capitalized and prepared to absorb periodic losses.

64.   Shareholders of Celera, which is losing money, value the stock on future potential and may be willing to absorb more losses.

65.   Shell and BP said they would hold to present prices and absorb losses from recent days.

66.   Some doctors complain that HMOs cut these rates arbitrarily, forcing them to skimp on care or absorb financial losses.

67.   Slocumb absorbed the loss, but any of the relievers were deserving.

68.   Some defaulted, losing the buildings to lenders, who absorbed losses when they were sold.

69.   Still, Scaife, the heir to manufacturing and banking fortunes, appears to have the resources to absorb losses for a long time.

70.   Such questionable or corrupt rescue transactions identified by Mackey are to be nullified, with bank shareholders absorbing the losses.