Word: cushions
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...tried to pick ourselves up at the start of the second half,” Amaker said. “But with an 11-point cushion for their team here at home, that’s a big hill for our team to climb...
...Woods missed a real chance to cushion his fall. His apology was vague and defensive, the feigned surprise at the harsh glare of "tabloid scrutiny" an approach that missed its mark. "I have not been true to my values," he told us. Probably so, but the statement was unverifiable; Woods calibrated his image as carefully as any man alive. Burned by a brash, freewheeling interview in GQ early in his career, he shrank from the spotlight even while courting it to augment his fortune. He shut out the press, cloistered his family in ritzy enclaves, abhorred distractions. This...
...kind of let down a little bit after we got a cushion,” Simmons said in a post-game press conference, according to Army’s official website. “We just had to refocus...
...Crimson rode an early 6-1 cushion for the remainder of the contest, relying on a hat trick from Lee and junior Veselin Kulev’s first two career collegiate goals to put the Camels away. Junior John Kolb, sophomores Luka Babic, Kevin DiSilvestro, Evan Zepfel, and freshman Antone Martinho also notched scores in the lopsided contest...
...Jersey governors' mansions, and a day after the Labor Department reported a 26-year record unemployment rate of 10.2%. Preaching altruism in such a climate to politicians bent on self-preservation is tough. In the end Democrats lost 39 of their own - passing the bill 220-215 with a cushion of just two votes, one of those a Republican in a heavily Democratic Louisiana district. (Read "Understanding the Health Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...