Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Citicorp's bolstered reserves give the bank a cushion against a default by any of its Third World debtors. That alone, predicts the head of a U.S. banking office in Brazil, "will change the renegotiating process forever." Says he: "The idea that a debtor can threaten the international financial system with collapse and get whatever it wants just won't work anymore...
...discovery that could change the world, a startling breakthrough in achieving an esoteric phenomenon long relegated to the backwaters of science: superconductivity. That discovery, most scientists believe, could lead to incredible savings in energy; trains that speed across the countryside at hundreds of miles per hour on a cushion of magnetism; practical electric cars; powerful, yet smaller computers and particle accelerators; safer reactors operating on nuclear fusion rather than fission and a host of other rewards still undreamed of. There might even be benefits for the Strategic Defense Initiative, which could draw on efficient, superconductor power sources for its space...
Japan's maglev is faster because instead of pounding along a set of rails, it floats four inches above a guideway on a cushion of magnetic force; there is no friction to slow it down, no fear of derailment on a section of bent track. This maglev has wheels, but the only times it uses them are while picking up speed before lift-off and while slowing down after landing...
Inside, the third period of the tight, one-goal contest began. Thirteen minutes later, Crimson junior Allen Bourbeau notched a power play goal to give Harvard a little cushion...
Barakett tallied in the second minute of play at Troy, while MacDonald flipped in another on a Crimson power play midway through the second period. Bourbeau and Nick Carone struck at 12:28 and 13:57 of the third, respectively, to give Harvard the cushion it needed...