Word: cushion
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Yesterday afternoon the Crimson continued toroll over upstate New York, this time with aneight-goal cushion over St. Lawrence (10-16-2,7-15-2 ECAC...
...Unfortunately, things like that happen andluckily it wasn't a game-winning or game-tyinggoal in the last minute of play," Mleczko said."We had a little bit of a cushion. It's been along couple of weeks, and we've had some reallytough games. Our big challenge is to stay togetheras a team and stay focused...
...cushion my way into the future," Rosenblatt said. "But I still enjoy it and derive a sense of achievement from...
Humor and broad empathies cushion the obviousness of Nattel's feminist subtext. So does her supple narrative technique, which weds the discipline of scholarship with artistic license. The River Midnight is inspired matchmaking. What a critic wrote after seeing a 1916 Chagall exhibition could be said of Nattel's Blaszka: "That this 'Jewish hole' [Chagall's term for his birthplace], dirty and smelly, with its winding streets, its blind houses and its ugly people, bowed down by poverty, can be thus attired in charm, poetry and beauty...this is what enchants us and surprises us at the same time...
...prospects. Rough times can hit a company or an entire industry without warning. A portfolio diversified among five or more industries, including some that are sensitive to the ups and downs of the economy (airlines, builders, equipment makers) and some that aren't (food, drugs), gives you a cushion. If achieving diversification means passing up what looks like a sure thing in your field...