1.   Do the workers themselves absorb the costs in lower pay?

2.   Does the employer absorb the costs and cut profits or raise prices?

3.   Forcing that constituency or group to absorb the costs of failed initiatives is a slow form of organizational suicide.

4.   This cost is often absorbed by the bidder.

5.   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.

6.   Analysts agreed the bank would be able to absorb the costs.

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

8.   As a result, they said, other customers would have to absorb the cost of buying the premium-priced power.

9.   As long as the state can absorb the cost of opening the canyon, Stump said, the park should be open.

10.   Besides instructing young doctors and absorbing the costs of treating sicker and poorer patients, they must pay for state-of-the-art medical technology.