Word: fends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bodies were lifted from the agonized postures of sudden death and shrouded in brown blankets by volunteer civil defense and Red Cross workers, wearing gas masks against the stench and rubber gloves to fend off the toxins from the decaying flesh. Frantic clusters of Palestinians gathered around the rigid, pathetic bundles. From time to time, one of the onlookers would shriek in horror, catching sight of the distorted features of a friend or family member. At one point, a woman torn by grief stood over one of the bloated corpses waving a scarf and a handful of personal letters...
Bachrach drew much of his support in the last election from his hometown of Watertown and is trying to fend off a challenge by the city's town clerk, James Fahey. A split of Watertown loyalties could give the election to Cambridge Police Lt William H. Maher, who has launched an expensive, last minute media blitz. Albert DiNicola is the other candidate in the race...
...from the Democratic fold. To them, economic recovery, by whatever means, is far more important than keeping the ideological faith. "If this deficit keeps ballooning," says a presidential adviser, "the political losses we will suffer will make the political losses from raising taxes look like nothing." In order to fend off wholesale electoral trouble, Reagan will keep pushing for new taxes in an effort to reduce deficits and steady the economy. He will have to endure right-wing carping, but political logic is with him. Says a White House strategist: "The hard right has nowhere to go. Business has nowhere...
...alive, smaller brewers have been racing to find merger partners, adding yet more turmoil to the churning industry. Pabst Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, once a leading brewer, has spent the past two months trying to merge with Olympia Brewing Co. of Washington State, while in the process having to fend off takeover attempts by the Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing Co., as well as legal attacks by a dissident Pabst shareholder, Irwin Jacobs. Meanwhile, the Stroh Brewery Co. of Detroit, which acquired New York City's F. & M. Schaefer Co. in 1981, is still struggling to digest its latest...
...buying up old regional brands like Grain Belt, Rainier and Black Label, and running them more efficiently than had their previous owners. So far, the brewer's attempt to expand nationally by taking over Pabst has been stymied by the Milwaukee firm's defensive maneuvers to fend off acquisition. Moreover, the Justice Department has threatened antitrust action against the takeover because both Heileman and Pabst already have sizable shares of the Midwest beer market...