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...While it's not clear whether more time in school can actually do anything to prevent plaques and tangles from forming, there is substantial evidence that schooling postpones memory and orientation problems. Education may help the brain's nerve cells build up more connections, giving it a larger cushion or reserve from which to draw upon when the neural network begins to fade...
...economist who worked in the Clinton Administration. "Essentially that means Airbus has no bottom line." Britain, Germany, Spain and France will lend Airbus a third of the development costs at close to market rates. The loans don't have to be repaid if the project fails. That kind of cushion, critics charge, guarantees the A380 a soft landing. Boeing gets indirect handouts through its lucrative U.S. defense contracts. Last March, for example, the Air Force floated a plan to encourage private carriers to buy a Boeing transport plane. The bottom line, however, is that Airbus gets more government help, which...
...scream high-tech, cool, innovative—but aesthetically, all the gallery offers is three white walls, a yellow lounge seat, a bunch of airline flight magazines and two televisions with a video stand. But then you pop a video into the VCR, take a seat on the lounge cushion, and while waiting for the video to load, grab a magazine. There the art begins...
...ultimate outcome of course was that you had a 24% increase in demand and virtually no increase in the generating capacity over the last several years. So they lost the cushion they had, and now we get into a tough year like this year and all of a sudden they're faced with the possibility of rolling blackouts and power shortages. They could have a significant adverse economic consequence, not only for California but the country. So we know what happens when we don't do it right. And what we're trying to do is get our act together...
...Crimson (6-5, 1-3 Ivy) got three goals from sophomore attackman Matt Primm, but the Minutemen (10-0, 4-0 ECAC) jumped out to an early lead and maintained a cushion to record their tenth win of the season...