Word: cushions
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...corner, junior midfielder Kristin Bannon found Polet who fired the shot that Keating deflected in. It was the team’s first goal of the season for a squad that many hope will be able to realize its promise. Keating’s score was enough of a cushion for co-captain senior goalie Kylie Stone, who shined on the other end of the field. Stone notched four saves en route to her third career shutout. “It pretty much went exactly how our coach designed it,” Keating said. “We?...
...most insidious effect of building condos and industry along water is that we are systematically stripping coasts of the protection that used to cushion the blow of extreme weather. Three years after Katrina, southern Louisiana is still losing a football field's worth of wetlands every 38 minutes...
...wood, athletes have been using paddles, or bats, that include a layer of sponge between the paddle and the rubber - anywhere between 2mm and 4mm, according to International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rules. That sponge, and the glue layered between it and the rubber, can give players a cushion that helps them to spin and direct the ball better...
...well -- the roof on which the rain of north European avant-gardes fell before its patter reached the rest of Spain. If there's one artist who exemplifies this, it's Miro, in whose work the archaic and local got fused to the new and unpredictable, with scarcely a cushion between the two. Miro's ''internationalism'' was largely the result of fame and an art-distribution system that became pan-European and then, after World War II, transatlantic. But the real stem of his imagination was intensely provincial, rooted in the Catalan compost; it was shaped, it is true...
Still, the wealth already amassed in these bounteous days for energy exporters should provide a cushion for years to come. Amid this euphoria, few seem to fret about the other seemingly glaring risk to the Gulf - the possibility that property speculation in cities like Dubai might lead to a bust. Mohamed Bin Ali Alabbar, chairman of Emaar, the region's leading property developer, says Dubai still has plenty of room to grow as a services center for the Gulf and its 200 million people: "The region is expanding, Dubai is too small, and so more needs to be done...