For the last decade, Mr. King served with that group, behind the scenes, to backstop the work of reporters and editors by refining the content and style of the day's major articles and headlines.
The backstop — which works out to about €750 billion, or $940 billion, when commitments from the International Monetary Fund are included — was announced May 9 as market jitters over Greece were weighing heavily on the common currency.
Grandparents often provide the essential backstop for working families.
Edge: Cardinals CATCHER Yadier Molina is the best of the best backstops and working on a hall-of-fame career.
As insurance, Patriot's lenders contributed $12.5 million to backstop the reclamation work in case Mr. Clarke failed.
According to Thomas Kee, Jr., these backstops for Wall Street work to "induce the wealth effect and spur the economy by inflating asset prices".
The liberalism of "the Life of Julia" doesn't envision government spending the way an older liberalism did — as a backstop for otherwise self-sufficient working families, providing insurance against job loss, decrepitude and catastrophic illness.
As Paul De Grauwe has been arguing for a while, what has been needed all along to calm the markets isn't austerity — which doesn't seem to help at all — but a liquidity backstop from the ECB, which works wonders.
YcgR works as a backstop motility break that binds to a flagellum rotor and, in the presence of c-di-GMP, decreases its ability to reverse rotation direction.
Gilberto Reyes had a brief career as a backstop for the Dodgers, and now works at a nursing home in Albuquerque, N.M. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times).
