In recent weeks the government has therefore announced various measures to cushion the blow for graduates.
Mr Fox's immediate task, however, is to cushion the blow from the United States' slowdown.
There will be precious little support from short covering to cushion the blow of any sell-offs.
With interest rates already at 0.5%, monetary policy could not cushion the blow.
That said, a pick-up in growth in Japan and Europe ought to cushion the blow to exporters from an American slowdown.
Those installations helped cushion the blow of the 2001 tech bust, when Baron had to lay off 9 of his 40 employees.
It is time to pay the piper, and I, for one, have little interest in using my taxpayer dollars to cushion the blow.
Moreover, these foreigners can now do a bit to cushion the blow for Americans: already global demand, coupled with a weak dollar, is boosting American exports.
The truth is that when crude prices drop and our fuel margins dwindle, our chemicals margins rise--not in direct proportion, mind you, but sufficiently to cushion the blow.
Being able to point to an increased tax rate for the wealthiest Americans would help to cushion the blow—and the blowback—likely to result from the administration agreeing to fool around with Medicare.
As lawmakers handle the delicate possibility of helping Greece to achieve something of an orderly default on its sovereign debt payments, aggressive strategies are needed to cushion the blow for the bond holders.
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So what that meant was even though you had seen your 401(k) go down, or maybe you're a small business owner and you are tightening your belt, you had a little bit of extra money to cushion the blow.
To cushion the blow to beneficiaries, the cuts to health plans in high-cost areas of the country such as New York City and South Florida — where seniors have enjoyed the richest benefits — will be phased in over as many as seven years.
The Recovery Act was intended to cushion the blow of the -- and severity of the economic downturn, to help save and create jobs, one aspect of a larger recovery that includes financial reform which is making its way through Congress to ensure that the type of activities we saw don't happen again.
The roughly 20% annual growth in laptops will cushion the recent body blow.
Firms may soon feel less need for the comfort of a large cushion of cash, if the likelihood of a nasty euro-zone blow-up recedes.
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