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Dunham was only a 68 percent free-throw shooter at the time, but she made both of her foul shots, giving Harvard a comfortable five-point cushion...
Ryan broke the game open midway through with his second and third goals of the evening, giving the Huskies a 5-1 cushion...
Enron's unraveling can be traced to investors' first whiff of "off-balance-sheet" partnerships that hid billions of dollars of the company's liabilities. By the time Enron crashed, it was primarily a trading firm. It had relatively few hard assets to cushion its fall when business faltered and hidden debts came due. The risks aren't nearly so great at asset-rich companies like Tyco and GE. But, as with Enron, seasoned analysts have trouble determining whence, exactly, they derive their profits...
Karl Rove loves a three-cushion shot. As the President's chief political brain, the Texan, 51, delights in crafting a message or staging a presidential visit that doesn't just score a political point but also plays to several constituencies at once. So when it was reported in the New York Times that Rove might have steered an Enron contract to Ralph Reed, a G.O.P. kingmaker whose support Rove needed, the political elite in Washington, which includes some longtime enemies, thought that just might be his kind of pool...
...lose the float. Use a credit card, and you will generally have 20 to 30 days to pay the bill. During that time, the earning power of your money is yours, not the merchant's or the bank's. That cushion also gives you time to return defective merchandise or dispute a transaction before you have to pay for it. Not so with debit cards, though issuers are so eager for consumers to embrace them that they routinely "give the customer the benefit of the doubt on a bad transaction," says George Albright of Speer & Associates, an Atlanta-based consultancy...