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...should be possible if we decompile the pattern buffer...
...letters, by making it difficult for students to withhold all funds, are supposed to provide a buffer between the council and complete bankruptcy...
...living. But peasant families tend to have two or three children in Mexico City, while those who immigrate to the U.S. average four or five children. In crowded Mexico City each child imposes steep costs on a family, while in the U.S. welfare payments and other social safety nets buffer those costs. These skewed incentives convey similar signals to poor young women in America's inner cities, who in many cases see no reason to defer having children...
...price. Maxxam doesn't want to sell the whole 44,000 acres -- about one-fifth of Pacific's holdings -- on which fast-growing second- and third-generation redwoods are reaching market size. But it is willing, perhaps eager, to sell Headwaters and a logged-over 1,500-acre buffer zone for something more than $500 million, the Forest Service estimate of the value of the timber. Hamburg thinks the figure % is far too high...
...liked to think he had as keen a sense for the nuances of the sport as the man he had hired. And especially on a team that, unlike most in the N.F.L., has no intervening front-office executive -- a general manager or player-personnel chief -- to act as buffer. "I'll try to be very subtle in my influence," Jones said before a college-player draft. "I can handle Jerry," Johnson replied. Both were wrong...