Playing with a big cushion after a 4-0 win in the first leg at home last week, Bayern beat Barcelona 3-0 in the second leg Wednesday night on goals by Arjen Robben in the 48th minute and Thomas Mueller in the 76th around Gerard Pique's own goal in the 72nd.
The first element was to lower interest rates to cushion the economy.
And that has helped cushion some of the tough stuff that happened in the first six months of this year, including the effects on oil prices as a consequence of what happened in the Middle East as well as what happened in Japan.
The quarterback known as RG3 became the first Heisman winner from Baylor on Saturday night by a comfortable cushion over the Stanford star.
The Nets came out with the first eight points of the second, opening a 38-20 cushion on Andray Blatche's jumper with 9:17 left in the half.
The Huskies zapped the suspense out of the game and the juice out of Louisville's season with a 19-0 run in the first half that gave them the luxury of a double-digit cushion the rest of the night.
The two-goal cushion gave Newcastle a degree of comfort after the break as they looked to secure their first away win since beating Pompey on 14 December.
Eleven points in a 13-0 run for fifth-seeded Michigan State, providing a cushion the Spartans would need in the second half against a mid-major known for its first-round upsets.
Gardner then ran in the first of his two tries, converted by Eastmond, who earned a 16-point cushion with a penalty.
When an extra capital cushion was needed to protect depositors and other creditors, these hybrid instruments could not provide it without the bank first defaulting.
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