91.   One local trader said Mexico continued to remain attractive to investors even as Brazil absorbs losses.

92.   The added scoring punch from Ozolinsh helped absorb the loss of Forsberg, who is out indefinitely while he recovers from a separated right shoulder.

93.   The department is working firefighters overtime to absorb the loss.

94.   The company has decided to absorb the loss to attract new buyers.

95.   HSBC says it can easily absorb losses from its exposure to the economic crisis in Argentina and the recent devaluation of the Argentine peso.

96.   Absorbing the losses of state enterprises had also resulted in a widening of the budget deficit, the OECD said.

97.   An institutional dealer said there was sporadic and light selling by local institutional funds but the losses were absorbed by late support for blue chips.

98.   But Chessen stressed that US banks were well placed to absorb any losses caused by late payments.

99.   Market rules state that it is up to the Names to absorb the losses.