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...risks of lending to lower-income people by allowing lenders to value the properties used as collateral over longer periods of time, reflecting their inherent value, and to tap rainy day funds designed to cushion...
...contrasts with the verve and sweep of his concubines writhing in horror, a black slave leading a dapple grey stallion to the pyre, murderous knives and swords in an interplay of linear rhythms, and bodies and cushions...
...“The first merit of a picture is to be a feast for the eye,” reads the final entry in Eugène Delacroix’s journal....
...The main question over its exit is whether the separation is gradual and managed under a UK-EU agreement, or whether it will be a more disruptive, abrupt process with only national measures to cushion change...
...A cushion on the nearby sofa is just as bright but covered in skulls inspired by Mexico’s Day of the Dead....
...Both corporate bonds and equities went into free fall during the financial crisis, so alternative assets designed to be uncorrelated could prove a cushion in future disasters – though some research suggests...
...Duchamp famously put a small bomb, or a whoopee cushion at least, under the art world when he presented his painting “Nude Descending a Staircase No 2” to New York’s Armory Show exactly 100 years ago....
...“It provided an important cushion,” says Jeff Gable, head of research at Absa Capital, in Johannesburg. South Africa has been helped by another factor....
...Suspended on this cushion, the droplet moves effortlessly and to all appearances, on its own, along a horizontal surface for up to 1m before evaporating....
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