Word: fending
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Opponents have noted that Waxman is hardly an equal-opportunity muckraker. Republicans and industry groups say his investigatory zeal is limited to conservative targets: he spent the Clinton years trying to fend off congressional investigations, including the ones into the White House's questionable campaign fund-raising practices, and once led a Democratic walkout when Republicans released a report on the firing of White House travel-office workers. While Waxman promises what he calls oversight, the Republicans say it'll be more like a witch hunt, and the Administration is promising to fight him all the way to the Supreme...
...Hostettler may have thought his vote against the war in Iraq would have neutralized the issue that Democrats across the country are using to great effect. But it isn't necessarily enough to fend off voters' growing disillusionment with the G.O.P.'s handling of the war. "The war comes up a lot and there is a lot of frustration about the war," Weisman said. "Voters here feel we need to do something, that we need a change of course...
...working on improving flu vaccination efforts, supporting employer-based vaccine programs, as well as college campus campaigns to get as many people as possible vaccinated before the worst of the winter weather hits. Getting vaccinated isn't a guarantee that you will fend off a bout with the flu, but it's a smart insurance policy against those aches and fever...
...state?s global warming strategy is to succeed, however, it must also fend off an auto industry lawsuit to invalidate its landmark 2002 law requiring carmakers to reduce tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gas and cut CO2 emissions for new vehicles by about 30 percent. And if that law were to be invalidated, California officials will face yet a new challenge: finding other ways to ratchet back emissions to meet the new overall limits it has just enacted...
CRIME A SCOURGE RETURNS On a day in late July, photographer Suau captured the promise and peril of life in the resettled city. At top, kids in the Seventh Ward eat ice cream to fend off the summer heat. Just hours later and a few blocks away, a quadruple homicide takes place, sending shock waves through the neighborhood. In the middle photo, Juanita Thomas, aunt to three of the victims, breaks down. In the early morning hours the next day, in the Fifth Ward, National Guardsmen, deployed to help police the city, interrogate a suspected drug dealer. Robbery and homicide...