Word: fends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an organized UConn attack pressuring a hobbled defense, the Crimson had trouble generating any offense itself. Harvard's midfielders had to drop back, and the strikers were left to fend for themselves against UConn double coverage...
Liteky served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Vietnam, and he won his medal for personally rescuing 20 of his comrades in a fire-fight while rallying his out-numbered men to fend off the enemy...
...suspense thriller known as The Perils of People Express took a sudden new turn last week -- but the denouement was not yet in sight. Almost three weeks after the revolutionary no-frills airline announced that it was looking to sell part or all of its operations to fend off bankruptcy, People found the buyer it needed. People's five-member board declared that United Airlines, the largest U.S. commercial carrier, would pay $146 million for Frontier Airlines, the Denver company that People picked up only last November. The same day, People's board rejected as "inadequate" an offer from Houston...
...against investment partners whom he charged with selling him their interests in a joint venture without informing him of all necessary facts. Dubious charges of racketeering are especially common in takeover attempts. When Corporate Raider Carl Icahn moved in on Dan River Inc. in 1982, the company tried to fend him off with a RICO suit. A business-world hardballer Icahn may be, but a racketeer? A federal appeals court refused to allow it. "RICO has a life of its own," says Illinois Federal Judge Milton Shadur disapprovingly...
Until last year, students, especially athletes with practice over spring break, had to fend for themselves in finding meals. The meal program was welcome news to many students. "It's justice that there be some kind of provision for meals," said Christopher W. Crutcher '86, a member of the crew team, which has practices during vacation. Crutcher said that meals were supplemented by pasteries from bakeries and other culinary delights rarely seen in Harvard's dining halls...