11.   If saving becomes a habit, your financial cushion gives you the option of starting your own business sometime in the future.

12.   In recent years, many Americans grew to feel they had a fat financial cushion to fall back on.

13.   It also sank profits into expansion rather than create a financial cushion.

14.   It is a sensible proposal that would provide a much-needed financial cushion for women in the last years of life.

15.   Once he builds a financial cushion, Bottomley might branch out from his guaranteed account to create an investment plan, she added.

16.   Plumped up a financial cushion for retirement.

17.   Some of them had the luxury of a financial cushion.

18.   Smaller players and freelancers often lack the financial cushion to protect them from delinquent accounts.

19.   Supporters of the measure believe that workers in that income level would be more likely to spend the money than would those with a larger financial cushion.

20.   That gave Alza enough of a financial cushion to fund its own sales force and product-development ambitions.