Word: fending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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B.A.T. was forced to sell Saks as well as the Chicago-based Marshall Field's chain as part of a strategy to fend off a hostile takeover bid led by Sir James Goldsmith, the Anglo-French raider. In an abrupt turnaround early last week, the takeover artist said he would drop his pursuit of B.A.T. But with the Saks sale already in motion and bids running high, the British company went through with the transaction two days later...
After five, or eight, years of hard, yeoman service to Harvard, these once promising young scholars are tossed out of our community to fend for themselves, their careers treated like so many soiled tissues upon which America's future leaders have cut their intellectual teeth...
...what he does and says in the months to come, Bush hopes to help Mikhail Gorbachev fend off the charge that he "lost Germany." At the same time, the U.S. President is doing everything he can to bolster Helmut Kohl for the West German elections in December. Kohl's coalition is committed to staying in NATO. Some of his Social Democratic opponents have talked about saying thanks and goodbye to foreign troops and perhaps even embracing neutrality. The Bush Administration believes a NATO without Germany would quickly lead to a Europe without NATO, and then . . . well, anything could happen...
After Pierce's nomination speech, members in the Berkshire delegation were caught in a crossfire from Pierce supporters who hurled small, red sponge balls imprinted with the Pierce logo through the hall. Trapped by the onslaught, they tried to fend off the attack with the red, white and blue Weld cushions adorning every seat...
...most patients, a bout of flu means a few missed days of work or school. But for people 65 and over and for those who have chronic heart or respiratory problems, diabetes, asthma or weakened immune systems, the disease can easily be fatal. Less able to fend off infections, these individuals are more susceptible to bronchitis, pneumonia and, occasionally, kidney failure and heart attacks. In an average year, flu is a factor in about 20,000 deaths in the U.S. The majority of A-Shanghai victims have been elderly, and all 50 states have discovered outbreaks in nursing homes...