Word: cushions
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Hunt also told the committee that HSA has been operating with surpluses for the past five years. "We had run in the red until the past five or six years," she said. Spruance told the committee that HSA now retained about 30 percent of its profits as a cushion for future debts, although she stressed that the agency is a nonprofit organization...
...another widely held fear is that wear and tear on the joints inevitably leads to painful and immobilizing arthritis. Yes, there is a wearing down of the cartilage pads that cushion bones, but less than half of those over 65 whose X rays show degenerative arthritic changes suffer symptoms. Many of the aches and pains attributed to acute arthritis, doctors say, have more to do with weakening muscles than creaky joints. People with some joint damage fare better when they engage in regular moderate exercise, such as walking or swimming...
Whether or not they bust the cap, most contenders in both parties will be nearly broke after New Hampshire. Only George Bush and Bob Dole among the Republicans and, to a lesser extent, Democrats Michael Dukakis and thrifty Albert Gore will have a comfortable cash cushion for the Super Tuesday primaries in the South. Even some of the early victors may be in trouble, since the rapacious demands of TV campaigns in the South could outstrip the abilities of their fund raisers. That is the underlying truth of presidential politics: it is extremely difficult to win without early money...
...mark has made American goods cheaper -- and thus more competitive -- in world markets. But by last February the industrial countries proclaimed that the dollar's fall had reached a point of diminishing returns. The governments of Japan and West Germany, among others, began intervening in the market to cushion the sliding American currency. The U.S., however, was reluctant to intervene wholeheartedly because it wanted to reduce the stubbornly large trade deficit...
...tell if there are going to be any complications," says Dr. Steven Gitelis, director of the bone bank at Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. The once frozen ligaments and tendons may not properly hold the knee together, and the original cartilage may fail to cushion it from shocks. "I would wait at least a year to proclaim success," he adds. Even so, says Mankin, "I'm all for it. If Schmidt has solved the problems of this operation, I'll be doing it next week...