Froome should give himself and his fragile-looking team a more substantial cushion during day's time trial from Avranches to the Mont-Saint-Michel.
Realogy said it ended 2009 with a substantial cushion on its financial covenants and over $200 million of available cash on its balance sheet.
Several financial experts still say that delaying benefits is the best form of insurance you can buy (think of the money you're not receiving as payment) to ensure you'll have a more substantial cushion later in life.
The average loan-to-value ratio is less than 60%, meaning the vast majority of homeowners have a "substantial cushion of equity" to protect them from any further slump in the market, the CML said.
And in contrast to the 1980's, when the United States was plagued by a simultaneous rise in its trade and budget deficits, the federal government is currently running a large budget surplus, providing a substantial cushion for the economy.
With the $2.0 billion it is expected to receive from the U.S. government the cash generated should help State Street should it face losses on its securities portfolio .Moody's believes that with this increase in capital, State Street's current capital levels provide a substantial cushion against the primary direct risks to its capital adequacy," Moody's said.
Those changes were intended to raise a substantial cushion for the future retirement of all those boomers.
Yet even among entrepreneurs who did not sell their stocks swiftly, many retained a substantial financial cushion because the prices they received for their companies were so inflated.
And that means, one way or another, limiting the threat posed by banks, either by directly limiting size, or mandating substantial capital cushions, or taxing leverage, or something else.I think it's very worthwhile to go back and re-evaluate everything that was done through the crisis, because other crises will occur no matter what happens, and there may be useful lessons to learn.
JPMorgan's announcement last month that a hedging strategy had gone awry, producing at least $2 billion in unexpected trading losses, has been pointed to as a reminder of the need for substantial capital cushions.
Though by intention "Kisetsu" is not a substantial work, it cushions you with beautifully misty sounds.
