Word: fends
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...sketch of international politics would show America and the Soviet Union each seeking to hold half the world in thrall, or to fend off each other. These two countries are called superpowers, but the name is illusory, since the power they have to level the earth and each other is self-restraining. While the U.S. and the Soviets must posture about war, less muscle-bound nations, such as Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, go at the real thing. So fierce are Lebanon's internal wars, one wonders if the country that grew the timber for Solomon's temple will exist...
There is considerable irony in Tisch's campaign. Cost-conscious bloodletting, in a bid to fend off corporate raiders who were swarming around the company, had stirred widespread unhappiness with Wyman and helped to bring Tisch to power in the first place. But the chops did not stop with Wyman's departure. Far from it. It was easy enough to explain a wave of 700 firings that had begun in July as the result of an austerity plan approved before the outgoing chairman's downfall. But then in October came 400 more, decreed by Tisch, followed by an additional...
...term to fend off Lang's wrath...
During the Viet Nam War, the U.S. Special Forces relied on some loyal comrades: the Montagnards, mountain tribesmen who proved to be ferocious fighters. But after the fall of Saigon in 1975, the "Yards," as their Green Beret trainers fondly called them, were left to fend for themselves in their jungle homeland. Last week, following a dangerous eight-year odyssey across hostile territory in Laos, Kampuchea and Viet Nam, some 200 Montagnard men, women and children reached...
...past crises. But this one seems different: for the first time, the public is showing a tendency not to believe the President, and the Democrats, who will shortly control both houses of Congress, sense that Reagan may at last be vulnerable to a broad-ranging attack. How can he fend...