1.   Today, elaborate financial cushions - unemployment insurance, welfare payments and so on - have made it less disastrous to be out of a job for a while.

2.   Although the owners have a financial cushion via a television contract with NBC and Turner Sports, the losses resulting from a cancelled season could be enormous.

3.   Because of its thin financial cushion, the company had been the subject of takeover speculation for years.

4.   Airlines always operate without much of a financial cushion because of their high fixed costs.

5.   But even with the caveats, he says the low rate is still troublesome, because a lot of people are living without a financial cushion.

6.   CBS needed to get into cable and QVC needed a financial cushion for its fledgling expansion efforts.

7.   Despite the recent high-flying returns on endowments at some universities, most do not enjoy such vast financial cushions, he said.

8.   Doing it without a personal financial cushion was entirely another, leaving him unable to eat or sleep.

9.   Dole has nearly exhausted his treasury, while Clinton has a comfortable financial cushion after the primaries.

10.   Every coach desires that sort of financial cushion.