build up reserves

It is expected to reach at least 240,000 by 2014, and will then begin to build up reserves.

In preparation they will build up reserves of brown fat during the late summer.

Those who could eat a lot and build up reserves of fat had an advantage when lean times came.

The oil companies' strategy of building up reserves to pay for future expenses is not uncommon.

The failure to build up reserves during the boom years will make recovery that much harder.

The oil companies are under pressure to build up reserves at a time when many have given up exploration in other areas.

If not, we'd have to build up reserves and self insure."

Clubs also typically try to build up reserves, but this puts them at odds with their mutual status.

The carrier has been in negotiations with other lines to sell assets to build up reserves to get it through the lean winter months.

And those programs are supposed to run surpluses, to build up reserves for the demographic deluge.

His goal is to build up reserves so he can provide for relatives without depleting his own money.

When a building's maintenance collections exceed expenses and debt service, the excess must go into an account to build up reserves.

It will therefore be free to retain surpluses and build up reserves, or to manage temporary deficits.

Kudrin's motive was to build up reserves in case there was another crisis, which turned out to be a good idea.

Nor was the association permitted to build up reserves against future losses and to invest the reserves, as private insurers do.

The hospital trust fund is paying the costs of the new program until its own trust fund builds up reserves.

For example, the state had started to pre-fund the health care benefits of its retirees, building up reserves against post-retirement liabilities.

Certain types of insurance, called "term insurance", are merely for your protection over a given period of time and do not build up reserves.

But fund managers said there was little cause for concern because they had built up reserves over the last few months in anticipation of a market drop.

The Makah, however, catch their salmon at sea, when adult fish have built up reserves of fat before entering local rivers to spawn.

By building up reserves in prosperous times and spending them in weaker times, the program helps stabilize the economy.

The windfall could be used at least as effectively, Mr. Aaron suggests, to build up reserves in the trust fund.

Then it could hoard the water and gases it needed, building up reserves from the slow trickle from below.

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Many states build up reserves in their unemployment trust funds when times are good, then use the surplus to temporarily raise unemployment benefits during recessions.