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Legal aid for the poor has become an accepted concept in American society, but without the proper back-up resources, it can only serve as a thin cushion insulating a large class of citizens from the shocks of poverty. With the limiting of the poor's access to the courts, perhaps social change will take place in the nation's streets...
Smith said the $2 million cushion between construction costs and the amount the corporation will have in the bank is a contingency in case the construction is delayed again...
Some countries might still attempt to cushion the blow to their economies by sharply devaluing their currencies or trying to expand vastly their exports to other hard-hit nations while restricting their own imports. The result, warned IMF Managing Director H. Johannes Witteveen last week, could be a resurgence of old-fashioned protectionism and a devastating trade...
...high as $500 million. The long-range effectiveness of that strategy obviously is doubtful; some publications complain that the UP) government is shielding them f from economic reality with the same paternalistic censorship that it applies to books and films. Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon) more realistically plans to cushion the crisis by jacking up its own prices for bunkering fuel. The island nation sits at a critical junction of shipping lanes and refuels many passing vessels...
Temple trailed Harvard early but recovered for a seemingly safe nine-point cushion with nine minutes remaining. But the Crimson came charging back to tie at 59 with two and a half minutes...