Word: buffer
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Indeed, Berkeley says locating undergraduates along the river would be more palatable because there would be a buffer between the Houses and the Allston neighborhood...
...Spurs have Pistons in Crosshairs," the trailer for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and, under the Music Choice header, something called "Al Green - Everything's OK." Everything was not OK. It mostly made me seasick, the picture swirled in and out of resolution and the phone often had to re-buffer the data stream in the course of the playback. It felt as if the people who upload this stuff don't actually watch it themselves, or at least, don't watch it on their phones. If they did, they'd never let it fly. Much of this content costs extra...
...news: across a big swath of the globe, the sea is still rising, eroding what for low-lying places was already a slim margin of safety. Making the problem even worse is the loss of what Florida International University coastal expert Stephen Leatherman calls "living landforms," which would otherwise buffer that rise. Consider the wetlands that are an integral part of all river deltas, he says. Plants trap sediment from floodwaters flowing downriver, and the more they trap, the higher these wetlands grow. The problem is, people don't much like floods, so they build levees, which keep sediments from...
Although Gorbachev, 54, was the youngest man sitting at the round conference table (Bulgaria's President Todor Zhivkov, 74, was the oldest), he was clearly first among equals in a group that exists largely to endorse Moscow's foreign policy and buffer the Soviet Union's western flank. The military bands and effusive bear hugs, however, could not mask the fact that the Sofia summit resulted in little more than Kremlin posturing in advance of Gorbachev's November meeting with Ronald Reagan in Geneva. A 15-page declaration blamed the U.S. for aggravating the arms race and piously declared that...
...hospital, he will be living with tubes: the one inserted through his nose into his stomach at the beginning of the operation, and an in travenous tube in his left arm through which he will receive nourishment in the form of dextrose, a sugar, and Ringer's lactate, a buffer solution. Both tubes will remain in place for several days until he resumes normal bowel movements, after which he can begin eating solid food again. The President is also receiving antibiotics to guard against the possibility of infection, which occurs in 2% or 3% of those who undergo the operation...