For additional protection, the EX-G1 comes with two types of detachable protectors to absorb shocks.
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By anchoring the currency, governments forced the real economy to absorb shocks.
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However, by adopting the euro early, a country forgoes the flexibility of altering its exchange rate to absorb economic shocks.
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Not surprisingly, many South Koreans find it hard to absorb such shocks.
The European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, said the new capital requirements would enable banks to "absorb future shocks themselves, without asking the taxpayer for help".
Quite how near was signalled by the ratings agency Fitch yesterday, which said that OBR's forecasts of rising government debt had reduced the UK's capacity to absorb further shocks and retain its AAA rating.
We believe that considering the strong margins that Apple is able to maintain on its Mac line, it will be better able to absorb the shocks of higher hard drive costs and hence not increase the pricing.
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Guillermo Perry, the World Bank's chief economist for Latin America, says Chile is better placed than any other country in the region to absorb external shocks, thanks to its well organised budgetary institutions, prudent fiscal management (a surplus every year since 1989) and tight banking supervision.
However, if more and more consumers start defaulting on their credit card obligations, what will happen is it will make it harder for banks to absorb other financial shocks.
That they are shoring up a firm too small to pose a systemic risk betrays a continuing lack of confidence in the financial system's ability to absorb even modest shocks.
Going into the shoulder season there will be much less of a buffer to absorb any exogenous supply shocks.
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Our insistence of increasing capital requirements for banks means that they can absorb some of the shocks that might come from across the Atlantic.
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Its structure becomes weak and unable to absorb any increases in uncertainty, inefficiency, and especially, shocks.
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