1.   But occasionally a company may absorb the shares into one of its own funds.

2.   Although the phone companies have been absorbing the costs of this fraud, Arcuri acknowledged that it eventually has an impact in rising costs to the consumer.

3.   Analysts say the company can absorb the costs without changing its earnings estimate.

4.   A downturn in economic growth will make it more difficult for these companies to absorb losses from tens of trillions of yen in defaulted loans.

5.   But the service companies can no longer absorb so many workers, said Robert Alan Feldman, director of Asian economic research for Salomon Brothers in Tokyo.

6.   Companies are absorbing the higher wages or finding ways to offset them.

7.   Increased productivity has allowed companies to absorb the added costs, he said.

8.   Investors should react positively if companies absorb their losses all at once, he said.

9.   It is also being absorbed by companies that are now undergoing reorganization and are searching for space to meet their reconfigured needs.

10.   Lauren Kallens, an MCI spokeswoman, said her company absorbed the extra cost of completing calls to wireless devices abroad until those costs began to skyrocket this year.