Word: cushioned
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...Whoopi. Actor colleagues in a San Francisco rep company didn't succeed in the early '80s, when they nicknamed her for a dim-witted novelty-store joke. "I was very flatulent," she explains with an angelic smile. "So for a while it was 'Whoopi Cushion.' Then, for a touch of class, 'Whoopi Couchant.' So I thought, Why not? I'll be Whoopi. But Whoopi Johnson just doesn't cut it." (You figure that one out; her name then was Caryn Johnson.) So she rummaged among her family names and came up with some mixed-blood Goldbergs she swears are back...
...pressure to cushion the impact of the recession was highlighted as some of the city's oldest businesses went under. Harvard square's J.F. Olsson's, which survived the Great Depression, closed its doors this February after 107 years...
Despite the lead, no one on the Crimson was particularly satisfied with the team's performance in the early going. Dropped balls and missed kicks prevented Harvard from padding its cushion even more...
...guess is that we wouldn't need to shift a lot of resources in order to create a kind of cushion," he says...
...believe you have a core, then when you make mistakes or have to account for past ones, they will let it slide. They'll even let you add two-and-two to five now and then. If you can't point to some heft behind you as a cushion, the voters think you're just the sum of your advisers' rhetoric and that you can't even get that right. That's why I'm often too specific. I know I have to work more to connect with an overarching vision, but I need the specifics in back for when...