Word: buttress
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...problems with all this is that in many cases the firms most aggressively competing for deposits aren't taking the money and lending it out but are instead holding on to it to buttress their balance sheets. Since consumers and businesses are so starved for credit, the banks that do want to lend the money forward are finding some ability to charge rates at a greater premium to prime, says Koch, but that doesn't necessarily make up the entire gap. Banks in general are still spooked by loans gone bad and nervous about lending to individuals and businesses without...
...Andelman ‘66 could have read my essay, “The Research Library in the Digital Age,” as an attack on the press and on my own brother, John. John and I were raised to value a free press as the strongest buttress of democracy; and that principle touched us personally, because our father was killed as a correspondent for The New York Times in World War II. In my essay, I argued that reporters write stories about what happened, that news stories have a narrative element, and that they should not be read...
...from around the time of Jesus that are claimed to either support or undermine Scripture but are themselves sufficiently, logically or archaeologically compromised to prevent their being definitive. In 2002, a bone-storage box with the legend "James Son of Joseph Brother of Jesus" bobbed up that seemed to buttress Jesus' historicity while at the same time suggest that the Catholic teaching that he had no true brothers was false - but the Israeli Antiquities Authority declared the inscription as a forgery (although various experts continue to disagree). In 2007 the Discovery Channel aired a documentary (funded by Titanic director James...
...most in the academic art world seem resigned to The Colossus being an inferior work by a Goya imitator. Not just the initials buttress that judgment, but also the coarse depiction of the giant's musculature, the less-than-careful rendition of the surrounding landscape, and the unnatural way in which a soldier is falling from his galloping horse. Symmons still isn't convinced. "Goya did create a number of highly unorthodox works in maturity," she says, "and these works do not always correspond to the way some scholars like to regard him - as a more decorous and orthodox artist...
...handful of contests left on the nominating calendar, Clinton needs all the opportunities she can get to pick up delegates, and thus she has supported either counting the initial results or, alternatively, holding new votes. She is also hoping that her clean wins in the two important states would buttress her argument that her victories over Obama in most of the nation's largest states suggests she would be a stronger opponent against the Republicans' presumed nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain...