The return of thousands of jobless workers from depressed Europe and lawless Libya has further shrunk the cushion.
Of course, if the red tape has gone, so too has the cushion it provided for farmers' incomes.
"I'm sorry, " I mumbled to the tight wool weave of the cushion's covering.
Instead, it digs into the cushion of your palm precisely where it shouldn't.
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He wants banks to increase the cushion of collateral they require from highly leveraged clients, in case trades go bad.
Brook adds an Irish jig to the gravedigger scene, and has Polonius play a tune on the cushion while instructing Ophelia.
The original design for the cushion came from a nurse in Denmark.
Blackburn needed the cushion of a second goal to settle any nerves, and twice MyPa almost coughed one up free of charge.
Dividends are low and the cushion of unrealised profits that banks could rely on has dwindled with the decline in the stockmarket.
With the cushion of a one-goal lead, the Gunners began to run riot, with good goalscoring chances falling to Adebayor and Robin van Persie.
The cushion of available oil will grow thin, and an unsettled atmosphere will likely translate into another spiky curve for oil prices this year.
That has driven yields down to record levels and, in the process, reduced some of the cushion they could provide in a bear market for bonds.
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In terms of the bolster's aesthetic value, interior designer Jayne Michaels of the firm 2Michaels likens the cushion to the waistcoat of a three-piece suit a tailoring element.
The Yorkshireman potted two reds off the cushion but played a poor positional shot on the yellow and subsequently missed it, handing Cope the opportunity for victory.
Obviously there are -- for banks that are in need of additional capital resources, for the cushion that these tests are required, there are many ways that they can do that.
Glasgow number eight Kelly Brown was sin-binned in the 64th minute, to eager tackling off the back of a ruck, but the Scots still held the cushion of a 38-21 lead.
Lynch sees the cushion climbing to 4.5 million bpd in 2007 as the Saudis bring the Khursaniya field into service but cut back elsewhere to make a place in the market for non-opec growth.
"Without the cushion provided by earlier surpluses, there is less time to address these programs' underlying insolvency before government deficits and debt begin to increase unsustainably, making more urgent the need for meaningful reform, " the report noted.
The cushion could be plumper still in some places: Europe is split over how strictly to enforce these rules, and whether to allow countries such as Britain and Sweden to add yet another wedge of equity on top.
But now that Carrefour's core business is under pressure, it may not be able to afford to lose the cushion of owning its own property and thus avoiding rent, says Philippe Suchet, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas in Paris.
Although they continue to mourn the loss of Rosa, they are grateful for the financial cushion provided by the life insurance and she is confident of what the future will bring to them.
Indeed, thanks to foreign investment and windfall profits from higher oil prices, a stabilisation fund set up by the government to cushion the country were the economy to sour has grown much more quickly than expected.
Frederick Hopkins, a medical doctor who had entered the Novitiate with Gerard in 1868, and whose suave manner had earned him the nickname of "the genteel Hop, " sat on the sofa cushion next to his and glanced at the page.
Increased orders for Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Embedded Multimedia Cards (eMMC) also helped the chip business to cushion the market squeeze.
In scientific terms, probably the most significant effect of the Sea Empress spill has been felt by a tiny creature known as the brooding cushion-star, or Asterina phylactica to those in the know.
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