Word: fending
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...want to stay in the market, defensive investing simply means sticking with stocks that can hold their own or even prosper in a downturn. Start with basic necessities, like food and drugs. Common sense tells you that even in a recession, people still need to eat and fend off illness. Also, while they may not be able to pay their cable or phone bills, they'll need to keep the lights on. So electric-utility companies are viewed as a good defensive group. Tobacco stocks historically have been viewed, ironically enough, as a safe investment, despite the industry's constant...
Both men take great pride in their remaking of the company and were horrified when it looked like Arnault--of whom Ford has said, "We could teach [him] a few things about this business"--would capture Gucci. To fend off the raider, the partners brought in self-made French billionaire Francois Pinault, the owner of Christie's auction house and part owner of Converse shoes, who used a controversial clause in Gucci's bylaws to purchase a 42% stake in the firm for $2.9 billion. Arnault insists Gucci's white-knight strategy was illegal, and the battle for the company...
EATING TOGETHER It has long been known that eating together as a family is important for the emotional and social development of children. But a recent study by Harvard Medical School has shown that children who eat with their parents are also healthier than those left to fend for themselves foodwise. When kids are allowed to eat on their own, they eat less of their fruits and vegetables, missing out on vital nutrients needed for growth and the development of the nervous system. They are also more likely to fill up on junk food, possibly putting themselves at risk...
When students of other, lesser schools try to belittle Harvard, they often criticize its attitude towards undergraduates. Harvard is frequently perceived as a cold place where students, who receive little or no personal attention from their professors, are left to fend for themselves...
...last year promising that he would be the one to restore honor and dignity to the office, so help him God. And he was the sunny conservative who was flirting with all those minivan moms and flinging open the G.O.P. primaries so that moderate voters could help him fend off threats from Steve Forbes and the rest of the pack. So how is it that the candidate whose stake as the front runner was based on his war chest, his invincibility and his proven crossover appeal now finds himself running out of cash and scrambling for the attention of those...