Word: fended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though newest to the scene, "Party of Five" has already captured a devoted following at Harvard and beyond. The show tells the story of the five Salinger children whose parents died in a tragic car accident, leaving them to fend for themselves. "Party of Five" capitalizes on the image of being more "down to earth" than "Beverly Hills 90210" or "Melrose Place." The critics agree, having awarded Party of Five the Golden Globe for Best Drama...
...rumor. One first-year asked if it was necessary to pay several thousand dollars in "administration costs" to graduate early or study abroad with advanced standing. It's not. Another emphatically refused accepting out of fear of being forced to move off-campus in his fourth year, left to fend with the expense and hassle of finding a Cambridge apartment. But moving off-campus is not a necessary result of accepting Advanced Standing...
...defiance, Clinton has to ponder what the next American move will be. In fact, decision makers in Washington are still wrestling with the possibility that Saddam actually wants the U.S. to attack. He could then lay out his corpses for television cameras, strike a victim's pose and fend off forever any effort to locate his weapons of mass destruction. Senior U.S. officials agree privately that the options are not good, but they end up arguing almost angrily that doing nothing is the worst...
...local coffee purveyors are not alone in their struggle to fend off Starbucks...
...either by encouraging them outright or by cleaning up after them. When it comes to women, Clinton has had a lifetime of enablers--not just the friends who egged him on but also the ones who helped him sidestep accusations. During the '92 campaign, aide Betsey Wright used to fend off "bimbo eruptions," charges about women from his Arkansas days. Senior adviser Bruce Lindsey used to advise flight attendants on the campaign plane to stay out of range of news cameras when Clinton disembarked. If the claims about Lewinsky are true, then what Clinton needed around him was more Evelyn...