The absence of fat also reduces the baking time, from an hour to about 40 minutes.

Thus the absence does not reduce accrued rights to redundancy pay or to notice entitlement.

"If the corporation is required to make repairs, the absence of insurance does not reduce that obligation," he said.

The absence of inflation has reduced the need for insurance.

Margins make a book worth perhaps 400 pounds, while their absence reduces the same volume to the box marked "all these at fourpence."

The absence of separate landing gear reduced both weight and drag.

Such a reading would have been the stuff of good social art history, and its absence reduces the exhibition to a series of harangues.

The absence of long-range delivery systems reduces the potential threat of these weapons.

The absence of newsmen also reduced the chance of competitors learning their methods.

The absence of grocery shoppers reduced traffic in town.