Word: cushion
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While losing a job is always a wrenching experience, most senior managers can count on reasonable severance as well as personal savings to cushion the blow. But for legions of workers whose prospects of finding a place in a shrinking job market are bleak, the money is fast running out. More than 2.2 million people used up all six months' worth of unemployment benefits last year, a 16% increase from a year earlier. Worse still, a study released in December by Mathematica Policy Research, a consulting firm, found that 60% of unemployed workers were in the desperate position of still...
...that we turned the ball over 11 or 12 times in the first half. We gave them a cushion at the end of the half," Roby said
...experts expect bank failures to come close to rivaling the S&L fiasco, which could cost taxpayers as much as $1 trillion over the next 30 years. U.S. banks have a total of $200 billion of capital to cushion losses, for example, while the S&L industry was virtually broke throughout the 1980s. Seidman told Congress that taxpayer funds would not be needed to finance bank bailouts under current economic conditions. But he added that "it is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that taxpayer money will be needed" if conditions deteriorate sharply...
...they can also cost about half as much. Each city, even each neighborhood, can custom-design its programs. Areas with a desperate AIDS problem can focus on providing outpatient care. For single adults, SROs with on-site services may be a permanent answer. For homeless families, transitional housing can cushion their re-entry into the private market...
...transportation system has left crops rotting in the fields or in warehouses. Soviet citizens grumble that many of the delays are deliberate, the work of diehard local bureaucrats seeking to undermine Gorbachev. The very fact that many Soviets have been stockpiling foodstuffs at home, though it provides them a cushion against the future, has only added to the sense of shortages in the stores...