Word: fending
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...forgo all public funding may signal an end to Roosevelt's apparatus for good. Obama, who would get about $84 million in public funds for the general election, stands to raise hundreds of millions more through private donations. The Illinois Senator contends he'll need that money to fend off attacks from tax-exempt advocacy organizations - known as 527 groups, after the section of the tax code under which they are formed - which, Obama said, will spend "millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations" to damage his reputation. (So far, a well-funded 527 movement against...
...high-profile follow-through for the recently installed government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The new Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, is the No. 2 official of the Northern League, a party which takes a hard line against immigration. He pledged further police action against illegal immigrants to fend off growing fears of vigilante justice: earlier this week, the makeshift quarters of Roma, or Gypsies, were set afire near Naples, forcing them to flee for their safety...
...Emergency measures being taken by local authorities range from turning off Barcelona's beach showers to building a desalination plant that will be completed in 2009. Shipping in water is a stopgap measure to fend off the pressure on the city's supplies of this summer's thirst. The Catalan water agency has contracted 10 vessels for the next six months to ferry water from the French port of Marseilles and from the Spanish regions of Tarragona and Andalusia. The boats are expected to deliver some 92 million cubic feet of water each month, at a total cost...
...many more coming every day." But that?s all he will say. "You have to get permission from the military first," he says, adding hopefully, "Are you from a foreign NGO?" Nearby is another battered monastery which houses a hundred or so refugees, who have apparently been left to fend for themselves...
...people of the delta fend for themselves. Farming families dry their recently harvested rice on nets spread out on the Bogalay road, and hang their damp clothes on the dead power lines. In the Bogalay area, the harvest was almost complete when Nargis struck, although much of it now lies unhusked in cyclone-crippled rice mills...