Word: cushioned
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...Union members have not had a raise since they agreed to defer a 14% pay increase in 1980. "I expect a long strike," said Michael Bakalo, a T.W.U. vice president. Securities analysts noted that the airline has some $400 million in cash on hand that it could use to cushion the impact of a lengthy walkout. But a protracted struggle could severely harm both the troubled airline and the strikers...
...fresh fruit for breakfast and likes to munch on Granny Smith apples during the day. Aides set out raw carrots as snacks during company meetings. He does not smoke, and he offers employees $6-a-month bonuses to give up the habit. IF YOU MUST SMOKE, reads an embroidered cushion in Mesa's corporate jet, PLEASE STEP OUTSIDE. But he is not averse to an occasional Scotch and soda at the end of the day, nor can he stop gobbling handfuls of nuts whenever they are within reach...
Though in the closing moments Princeton put on a display from the foul line that's accounted for its 13 losses, it had forged a big enough cushion to offset its charity stripe inacurracy...
...Government officials are trying to be reassuring. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker told Congress last week that agricultural banks have historically been "quite profitable, so fortunately they have a certain financial cushion of liquidity and capital to draw on." Still, 25 of the 79 U.S. banks that failed last year had at least 25% of their loans out to farmers. Volcker admitted that the farm-bank failure toll will be higher this year. Some 325 institutions on the FDIC's list of 889 problem banks are agricultural lenders...
...supports, says Amstutz, "created a cushion of comfort for others" in world markets. Farmers in Brazil, Argentina, the European Community and elsewhere expanded production, secure in the knowledge that they could undersell U.S. farmers. And the supports kept American farmers from cutting prices to get back the lost sales; growers have no incentive to take a lower price overseas than they could get from the Government...