Word: fending
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PRIZEFIGHTERS With 12 nominations and a Golden Globe, the crowd pleaser Gladiator hopes to fend off critics' favorite Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to capture the Best Picture Oscar at Sunday's Academy Awards. Let the games begin. Illustration for TIME by James Bennett...
...many must fend for themselves, struggling to survive. The trauma of losing parents is compounded by the burden of becoming a breadwinner. Most orphans sink into penury, drop out of school, suffer malnutrition, ostracism, psychic distress. Their makeshift households scramble to live on pitiful handouts--from overstretched relatives, a kind neighbor, a state grant--or they beg and steal in the streets. The orphans' present desperation forecloses a brighter future. "They hardly ever succeed in having a life," says Siphelile Kaseke, 22, a counselor at an AIDS orphans' camp near Bulawayo. Without education, girls fall into prostitution, and older boys...
...fend off similar legislation here, U.S. manufacturers are scrambling to devise recycling programs of their own--and hoping to make a buck while they're at it. Last November, IBM launched the first nationwide program; it charges computer users a $30 shipping-and-handling fee to take even an ancient PC off their hands. Hewlett-Packard plans to launch its consumer-PC take-back program in March. Regional efforts--such as Sony's "recycling days" begun in Minnesota last fall--have sprung up from Oregon to New York...
There is one surprise awaiting the industry. This week lame-duck Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater is expected to issue long-anticipated and controversial "competition guidelines," which the big airlines have tried for years to fend off. The document will give detailed definitions of what constitutes predatory behavior and unfair methods of competition. The guidelines will, for the first time since deregulation, allow the DOT wide latitude in looking into the subtle ways competition can be affected. For instance, if a large airline threatens vendors who offer their services to start-up airlines, the new rules would let the DOT move...
...Ashcroft's primary mission was to fend off attacks from Democrats, who assailed his record on civil rights and questioned his dedication to "sensible gun laws." The nominee, who appeared fairly energetic at 10 a.m., seemed to age 15 years during the course of the marathon day. And while Ashcroft held his own as the accusations intensified, Democratic senators Joe Biden, Dick Durbin and Edward Kennedy appeared especially eager to land as many blows as possible, roaring across their table at the frustrated nominee, who asked several times for "uninterrupted time to respond...