Word: fending
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...reduced rates, while all others pay the full cost. Some companies are excused from paying all or a portion of their taxes due, while all others must pay the full amount imposed by law. Some companies receive grants, low-interest loans and other subsidies, while all others must fend for themselves...
...designers of their same era changed hemlines, their theories always retained one constant: the mother was at fault each time. Mainstream thinking dictated that "mechanized and maladroit" (so called "refridgerator" mothers) produced autistic and schizophrenic children. Other Rosen-type psychoanalysts would also blame the victims and their weakness to fend madness off. But there were no statistics, let alone control groups to back such theories. Often, all these psychotherapists relied upon was the "power" of empirical observation. One psychiatric duo, Maurice Green and David Scheter, came to the conclusion that the mothers of autistic children were "all very lonely, frightened...
Students are perhaps both more and less cynical today than they were when Dean Lewis was a student. On the one hand, there is less of a sense that authority is malicious; on the other hand, there is the strong sense that the individual should and must fend for herself. Reverend Gomes said that today "so many things go against us," including "cold individualism and self-interestedness," but both he and Lewis noted the University's own failures in accomplishing its seemingly outdated mission to produce better citizens...
...party system, sneaking admiration for the freedoms Americans enjoy is more widespread than party leaders imagine. In an effort to remove the dead economic hand of the government, which has kept China poor and backward, the new leadership is unleashing the energy and ambition of 1.2 billion people to fend for themselves. It is like opening the floodgates of a dam. It is the force that makes the China that U.S. President Bill Clinton will see this week a much different place from what it was only a few years...
...doubles point was clinched at No. 3 in thetightest match of the day. Passarella and Tsenghad to go to the 14th game to fend off DamonAccardi and Jeff Martini 8-6. Blake and Majmudartook No. 1 doubles 8-3. There were, however, sometight moments...