Word: fended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once that issue was decided, the Reaganites seemed to lose any keen interest in the infighting. Ford's men gave some ground, however, in agreeing to explicit language supporting the U.S.'s mutual defense treaty with Taiwan. As for detente, Ford's supporters were able to fend off any direct criticism of current Administration policy. An intriguing sidelight: a draft by the platform-committee staff mentioned Richard Nixon's opening to China, but subcommittee members voted to delete this only reference in the platform to the disgraced former President...
...terrorist attacks on Israel border settlements have left "Fatahland" to fight against Christians and Syrians in the north. In effect, the southern half of Lebanon has been left without any government, and its 360,000 Moslem, Christian and Druze inhabitants-mostly poor and scrambling farmers-have been abandoned to fend for themselves. Israel is moving determinedly into the vacuum. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff last week toured the mountainous 80-mile Israeli-Lebanese border and sent this report...
...Harvard has a tough time dealing on a one-to-one basis with the legislative bodies, it hasn't faced too many problems with a regulatory agency like the NLRB. In fact, because of its seemingly "favored" position, the University was forced all year to fend off charges on the part of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America that Harvard somehow "owns or controls" the labor board...
Howard Hughes was eager to have a link to the CIA, since he believed it would help him fend off other U.S. agencies prying into his taxes and business manipulations. The now defunct Robert R. Mullen & Co., which represented Hughes in Washington, also served as a CIA front and provided cover for agents in Europe and Asia. Mullen's president, Robert Bennett, is now a Summa executive...
...quarterfinals doubles action, the number three seeded team of Billie Jean King and Betty Stove recovered from a second set scare to fend off Regina Marsikova and Wendy Turnbull...