If the U.S. would supply Ukraine with just one of the Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense batteries that we keep in reserve for contingency operations — the same technology being sent to Israel to counter Iranian missiles — Kyiv could take the sting out of Moscow’s longer-range ballistic missile threats.

At the Winn Correctional Center, ICE will scale back the number of beds its pays for to keep in reserve, citing staffing constraints, and will evaluate “ongoing construction and remediation work at the facility” to see if conditions improve.

“We did an inventory of our cash to see how much we could keep in reserve in case a place didn’t appraise high enough, but we were also betting the property would appraise,” Haskell says.

The Federal Reserve said on Friday that it would not extend a temporary exemption of a rule that dictates the amount of capital banks must keep in reserve, a loss for big banks and their lobbyists, who had been pushing to extend the relief beyond its March 31 expiration.

Besides all this, in order to be able to keep the lower classes fed without loss of public funds, they always keep in reserve a year’s supply of raw materials sufficient to give these people work at those trades that are the nerves and lifeblood of that city and of the industries from which the people earn their living.