• Now, I assume that someone has looked at this before, but this is roughly consistent with a corporations-hold-cash-as-a-buffer-between-revenues-and-costs model.

    FORBES: Challenge Accepted: Kevin Drum on Corporate Cash

  • Watney, who was runner-up at the WGC-CA Championship event in March, could have led by even more, but bogeyed his final hole after three-putting to have a two-shot buffer over Germany's Martin Kaymer and Irishman Shane Lowry.

    CNN: Watney ties record as Tiger lurks in Shanghai

  • Basel III additional capital buffers are: a mandatory capital conservation buffer of 2.5% and a discretionary counter-cyclical buffer.

    FORBES: Basel Barriers: How capital requirements would impede progress in the sovereign debt crisis

  • At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, war-crimes trials are screened in full, usually with a 30-minute buffer so that sensitive statements can be blotted out.

    ECONOMIST: Broadcasting bits of court cases might be a good idea

  • Sexton tagged on the tricky conversion for a 10-point buffer at half-time, and it was his half-break that ignited Leinster's attack again for their bonus point try.

    BBC: Leinster 43-20 Saracens

  • The shooting came from a post-war buffer zone ringing Kosovo.

    CNN: Kosovo NATO troops under fire

  • Arsenal also earned a two-goal buffer against promoted Birmingham inside the first 20 minutes, as Robin van Persie and Abou Diaby scored in the space of three minutes.

    CNN: United back on top as Chelsea crash at Villa

  • The aggregate tier one common capital ratio - assets held in reserve as a buffer against financial troubles - would fall from an actual 11.1% in the third quarter of 2012 to 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2014 in the hypothetical stress scenario.

    BBC: Ally Financial sign

  • The suspicion must be that what we are seeing is a co-ordinated movement by two of the countries that have most vehemently opposed tough international action to restrict emissions over the last few years - perhaps as a buffer in case the EU starts looking at other trade-related climate measures, such as border adjustments, more seriously.

    BBC: EU's aviation charge is a drop for China's airlines

  • The Department of Transportation tried to decree that airlines create a "peanut-free buffer zone" for passengers who request it.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • So in 1997 he set up an artists' community in his home town of Jogjakarta - as a buffer against outside pressures as well as a center for creative interaction.

    CNN: THE SOUNDS OF CONFLICT

  • Thirdly, banks are to hold a sufficient capital buffer - as outlined by global regulators - which means that if banks do fail, losses can be absorbed by shareholders and other creditors rather than the taxpayer.

    BBC: Business

  • The commission, chaired by Sir John Vickers, an independent-minded economist, also called for a big increase in the amount of capital held within these ring-fenced banks as a buffer against losses.

    ECONOMIST: Bank reform

  • "If extreme droughts like these become more frequent, the days of the Amazon rainforest acting as a natural buffer to man-made carbon emissions may be numbered, " forest ecologist Simon Lewis, from University College London, has said.

    CNN: Drought-stressed trees face race to adapt

  • There are steps that could make a difference right now -- steps that can also serve as a buffer in case the situation in Europe gets any worse.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Hiring Veterans

  • The Bank of England's Financial Stability Review shows that Barclays' retail banking loans in Spain, Italy and bailed-out Portugal are equivalent to a bit more than its core equity capital - its buffer against losses.

    BBC: Downgraded UK banks, bonuses and Bank of England support

  • It sent 6, 000 soldiers into eastern Congo, supposedly to create a buffer zone against Congolese-based Ugandan rebels.

    ECONOMIST: Uganda and Congo

  • They have embarked on the largest expansion programme in many years, and aim for a buffer of 1.5m-2m bpd.

    ECONOMIST: The central bank takes stock | The

  • Snow-pack and glaciers provide a buffer between when the precipitation falls as snow and when it is released as water.

    UNESCO: 83e

  • In the end Andrei Iniesta's second-half goal -- inevitably set up by Messi -- gave the home side a comfortable buffer and left Pep Guardiola's team on course to defend their title.

    CNN: Messi stars as Barca reach semifinals

  • There are, however, enough fine moments spread throughout the film to serve as a buffer against some of the heavier-handed stuff.

    CNN: Review: Genius is as genius does in 'Good Will Hunting'

  • Kenyan troops have launched a cross-border operation against Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia with the apparent intention of setting up a buffer zone across the border.

    CNN: Mysterious al Qaeda 'envoy' dispenses aid in Somalia

  • The soldiers will join a 250-strong unarmed peacekeeping mission in the UN buffer zone.

    BBC: TA troops in training

  • Protected by uninhabited forests to the north, the Rockies in the west and arid country in the south, authorities set up a 323-mile long, 18-mile wide buffer zone along the other place rats might enter, Alberta's eastern border with Saskatchewan.

    WSJ: In Alberta, Citizens Smell a Rat After Long-Banned Rodents Appear

  • After passing from one so-called "buffer" company to another, a broker would finally export the same items, claiming a VAT refund.

    BBC: Shahid Ramzan

  • Developing corporate-bond markets is important for financial stability, both as a buffer when other funding sources run dry and to reduce mismatches in a firm's balance sheet.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • It offers governments and taxpayers more security and it reassures counterparties, depositors and debt-holders who are higher up the capital structure and who get a bigger buffer between them and losses.

    ECONOMIST: Banks need equity, not hybrid capital

  • Another of its recommendations is that banks must have a buffer to absorb the impact of potential losses or future financial crises - of at least 10% of domestic retail assets in top-quality form, such as shares or retained earnings.

    BBC: Vickers report on banks to be accepted in full - Cable

  • Another of the ICB's recommendations is that banks must have a buffer to absorb the impact of potential losses or future financial crises - of at least 10% of domestic retail assets in top-quality form, such as shares or retained earnings.

    BBC: Acclaim for banking shake-up plan

  • The two countries came close to all-out war over border disputes last year, and have since agreed to set up a buffer zone along the border.

    BBC: South Sudan restarts oil production

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