Word: cushions
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Some body fat is essential, of course. The yellowish globules, layered under the skin and packed around organs, cushion the body against injury, insulate it from cold and supply fuel to meet energy needs. Too much fat, however, increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, among other afflictions. Establishing ideal body-fat percentages is difficult, since height, age, body frame and exercise are all factors. Generally, scientists agree that the normal range for men is 12% to 23% and for women...
...might bring on a still worse crash, a world financial crisis and a shattering global recession. Moreover, there does seem to be a way out. In outline: Start now a program to cut the budget deficit steadily and substantially through a mixture of spending cuts and, yes, tax increases. Cushion the blow to the American economy -- and there will be some blow -- by easing Federal Reserve monetary policy and allowing interest rates to come down. Meanwhile seek the cooperation of foreign nations to ease their own interest rates and stimulate their home economies -- and perhaps let the exchange value...
...high-interest-rate policy that proved to be poison to world stock markets. And still the Louvre values could not be sustained. ( Last week the dollar fell to new lows against the West German mark and Japanese yen; foreign governments seemed willing to buy only enough U.S. currency to cushion, not stop, the decline...
...before Black Monday, the government had successfully completed the $2.6 billion sale of state-owned Compagnie Financiere de Suez, a financial combine. Last week Suez's debut on the battered Paris Bourse was suddenly postponed. Reason: in the continuing stock slump, shareholders would be hit by immediate losses. To cushion the blow, the 1.6 million small investors who bought Suez shares may eventually be allowed to pay in installments...
...colleagues reached 98 K, or -283 degrees F, an achievement some physicists think should have earned Chu a share of the prize. That level of cooling can be achieved with more readily available liquid nitrogen. Suddenly, a wide range of applications seems economically feasible: trains that ride on a cushion of magnetism; smaller, faster supercomputers; more powerful medical imaging machines; and 100%-efficient power lines. The superfast train, notes Bednorz, "is a real dream of mine...