Word: fending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international student at Harvard, Elora knows how to handle herself, too. After growing up in India, France, Lebanon, Bangladesh and Poland, and attending boarding schools in England, Shehabuddin learned to fend for herself in a foreign culture...
...debriefing Scientology defectors for the past three years, in part to gain evidence for a major racketeering case that appears to have stalled last summer. Federal agents complain that the Justice Department is unwilling to spend the money needed to endure a drawn-out war with Scientology or to fend off the cult's notorious jihads against individual agents. "In my opinion the church has one of the most effective intelligence operations in the U.S., rivaling even that of the FBI," says Ted Gunderson, a former head of the FBI's Los Angeles office...
...ways to protect our bodies and our destinies. The non-profit organization called Model Mugging of Boston offers what may be the best answer: serious street-fighting training for women. By practicing delivering fullforce blows to a heavily padded "model mugger," the women in the program learn how to fend off misogynist terrorists of all types. According to a recent article about Model Mugging, "of the 28 graduates who were attacked" after taking the course, "two chose not to fight because their assailant carried a weapon, six disabled their attacker long enough to escape, and 20 knocked out their assailant...
Relations with the federal government now require consummate skill. Badly needed funding must be preserved, and a Harvard president has to be a master of defense to fend off probes and investigations emanating from a sometimes-hostile White House...
...communist regime was in a position to fend off the wave of popular revolt that has washed over Europe in the past two years, the Party of Labor of Albania seemed the best bet. Since coming to power in 1944, Albania's communists have gone to great lengths to avoid all compromising entanglements with the outside world. Enver Hoxha, socialist Albania's founder, rejected all contact with the West and broke ranks with communist allies in Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and China when they deviated from strict orthodoxy...