Word: fends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blame. Priming for the election, he set records in building schools, dams and highways. In the year preceding the election, the money supply was increased by an astonishing 23%. At one point, the government's indebtedness totaled $1.5 billion. Marcos is faced with paying the bills. Hoping to fend off devaluation of the peso and improve a costly payments imbalance, Marcos has imposed import taxes so stiff that the price of a legally imported $3,000 car has risen to $20,000. Government spending has been slashed, and old loans are desperately being renegotiated. Sizable short-term loans...
...convention that they will live happily ever after, but one does regret somewhat the amount of time that they have to be kept apart onstage. Anticipation is an overrated pleasure. However, the play does have the abiding relish of Restoration comedy in that while the characters warily watch and fend each other off, their minds and their words are concupiscently active between the sheets...
Unlike airlines, which promise to make the going great, and bus lines, which urge travelers to leave the driving to them, U.S. railroads have increasingly been able to fend off passengers with shrinking schedules and slovenly service. Now both the public and the Government are fighting back...