Word: buffer
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...some ways no. The defense needs to take a greater leadership role in the first four games. We’ve got new quarterbacks coming into the system, and it’s important that the defense limit the offense to a low score so the offense has a buffer zone to work with. There are great playing anchors in the wide receiver corps—Rodney Byrnes, [Corey] Mazza, Joe Murt, Ryan Tyler. I think the offense is going to do great, but it is important that the defense support the offense, especially in the first four games while...
...trailer cities instead of providing housing vouchers. Bush promised that the feds would rebuild the "great majority" of the "public infrastructure." But what of the houses that were lost that will not be covered by insurance? And there was no talk of rebuilding the Louisiana coastline, the best natural buffer against another ravaging flood of the city. "A greater federal authority and broader role for the armed forces" is what Bush called for, but what will that mean for the longstanding constraints on the armed forces at home? Isn't the military already stretched too thin...
...Labour won two votes for every one that its traditional rival National was able to secure. Amid national affluence, and with such a large electoral buffer, Clark should be unassailable. But she's not. Far from it. Labour finds itself neck and neck in the polls in a two-horse race with a revitalized National, under the leadership of political novice Don Brash, a former governor of the country's Reserve Bank. Are people ungrateful, or has Labour reached its use-by date? It may simply be that New Zealand politics is becoming a more unpredictable game or, as Deputy...
...talking, Wal-Mart is trying to remake its image, in some measure with the aid of inner-city African Americans. The math is simple: Wal-Mart offers stores and jobs to poor black communities that are hemorrhaging both. Meanwhile, those communities extol the virtues of Wal-Mart, offering a buffer against the company's critics. Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott is well aware of what a business partner like Garner does for the company's profile. "I like the image," he says. "In one part of Chicago you have ... an African-American woman who demolished the existing building...
...wringing over the sale of Maytag--particularly when a Chinese firm put in a bid--came from nostalgia over the brand. The Maytag repairman may be one of the most recognized brands in America, but the company has to keep the name fresh. Though it has cast a younger, buffer repairman, Maytag has been selling the same idea--we're the old reliable--even as consumers' tastes shifted toward more sophisticated products. That left an opening for specialty lines from GE and Whirlpool and upstarts like LG and Samsung. Thanks to stylish marketing, those brands are synonymous with high...