They hoard cash and try to save for the rainy day that they are convinced will come.
The big balance in the Rainy Day Fund might also be tapped to help counties in the Eagle Ford and elsewhere in the state to fund the repair and improvement of county roads that are being impacted by the high volume of heavy truck traffic that comes along with rapid oil and gas development.
The researchers found that the top performers (those who completed the task the fastest and the most accurately) were the rainy-day control group participants, who had seen neither the actual sun nor pictures of the sun before doing the task.
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The rainy-day reserves are higher than they were between 1980 and 1996.
Smaller businesses, in particular, may be sensitive to concerns about the national debt because they may lack the rainy-day resources and cash reserves that a larger company may have available to ride out tough times, she said.
Although it has had an impressive track record of growth, its ability to turn a profit is still a question mark and it is likely that the company will need rainy day funds in the future.
Scott didn't make a bogey after the first hole, and he really didn't miss a shot the rest of the day on a rainy Sunday at Augusta.
If the rout continues, will the guardians of such rainy-day money be able to keep the politicians' fingers out?
Prudence is not always a virtue: the instinct to save for a rainy day seems only to harden when the rains set in.
There are a thousand arguments for and against this already, but one does have to admit that in times of economic recession lower revenues can be expected and the government needs to act accordingly by having a rainy day fund or fluxing the rate.
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Making small but regular payments into appreciating assets can form the basis of a rainy day fund or even grow into a sizable nest egg over time.
Instead, Apple banks the cash for a rainy day.
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"To the extent that consumers end up either using the majority of (the refund) to pay down debt or simply to save for a rainy day, obviously the economic impact is going to be a lot less, " said Michael Gregory of Lehman Brothers.
Mr. Snyder, a first-term Republican, has made it a priority to boost the state's rainy-day fund.
Every day in the rainy season Dr Formenty sets traps for animals suspected of hosting the virus.
Corporate titans, including those with stellar ratings, are drawing on revolving bank-credit lines to secure rainy day funds until the credit markets calm down.
An enormous lesson for both the individual grantor and the charity is that both need rainy day funds to cushion sharp, unexpected contractions similar to what we are passing through now.
Sunshine On A Rainy Day was originally the hit that made Zoe a one-hit-wonder in 1991 - and if I remember rightly, she was a similarly-endowed female solo singer too.
Employers can easily help their employees save for a rainy day, leveraging the payroll system and direct deposit to automatically send a small percentage of their paychecks to a savings account.
Those without the dollar reserves sitting in their rainy day funds at home can persuade and bargain, but having little cash they cannot pull the inter-vention trigger themselves, Booth writes.
For now, states can close the resulting budget gaps by raiding rainy-day funds.
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Secondly, if unemployment insurance were abolished altogether, this would profoundly impact the willingness of the average American to save for a rainy day.
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As elsewhere on the coasts of the southern Mediterranean, winter weather can be changeable from day to day with cool, cloudy, rainy spells interrupting the generally warm, sunny, and settled weather.
This, in turn, pushes up the amount of capital the firms have to set aside for a rainy day.
And the big question that remains unanswered is the whereabouts of all the money the government claimed to have saved for a rainy day.
One rainy day, they sat under the wavering glow of a shorting light fixture while Obie feebly complained about how little Julian was paying him.
Last Sunday, an overflow car park in a grass field adjacent to the site had to be opened to accommodate the stream of traffic even though it was rainy day.
Meanwhile, exposure to the sunny-day photographs significantly decreased the performance of participants who came to the lab on rainy days.
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