Word: fends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final irony could be that Torrijos, once fond of bandying about anti-American statements himself, may have to rely upon the American economic and military aid promised as part of the treaty package to fend off the radical threat. Torrijos has sent his National Guardsmen, many of them graduates of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas on Gatun Lake, on operations to hone their effectiveness against potential guerrillas. Last spring 1,000 guardsmen spent five days traversing the Isthmus. When they arrived in Colon, they were greeted by the cheers of the populace...
Jeremiahs Needed. The true outrage of The Abuse of Power, however, rises not from its flaws but from its truths. If many of the specifics have been sporadically reported, if criminals have often been called to account, urban systems still manage to fend off basic reform. They will continue to do so until voters decide otherwise. For that millennium to occur, there need to be more Jeremiahs like Newfield willing to howl their grim, invaluable message over and over again. It cannot be heard by too many citizens, or heeded by too many cities...
...says, "The sports that get more publicity, you expect to have more clout with admissions." When one coach has an especially successful year--whether he has picked well, or perhaps because he strategically pushed the right students by putting them on his list while allowing stronger applicants to fend for themselves in the admissions process--other coaches are bound to notice...
...years, the gap between rhetoric and reality in international amateur athletics has bred hypocrisy and, periodically, scandal. While demanding lip service to an impracticable ideal, the amateur system has left American athletes to fend for themselves in a degrading world of under-the-table payoffs and over-the-table handouts. To support themselves during the rigors of year-round training, many Olympians have accepted deals from manufacturers and fees for appearing in track and field meets, hiding their earnings from Olympic, Amateur Athletic Union and international sports federation officials. In the process, many have concealed their incomes from the Internal...
Banned in Iran. Anyone who has read a newspaper in the past three years will recognize real-world dilemmas: a politically volatile Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads over oil prices; New York's banks hungering for Arab oil revenues to fend off a looming liquidity crunch; a spreading Middle Eastern arms race, with the U.S. shipping ultramodern weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing...