Word: fends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambulance giants fight for valuable hospital and HMO contracts, they must now fend off a backdraft of sorts from public fire departments eager to protect their jobs and budgets. In most communities, fire fighters answer 911 calls. But after treating and stabilizing victims, they often hand off the transport of the injured to a private ambulance--as in Aurora--which collects the entire bill, upwards of $1,000 for a seriously injured patient...
...phones for neighborhood watch groups can also be seen as the articulation of a different vision of government than that which we have come to expect from the overheated debates in Washington. It is a vision of government that neither solves problems for people nor leaves them alone to fend for themselves. Rather, Bill Clinton's winning vision is one that gives people the means to fix their own problems...
Dole doesn't like change much, in himself or the world around him. In his experience, change was often something to fend off; it was born of forces of nature--the weather changed in the 1930s, turned Kansas into powder--or forces of history, the war that injured him. He thinks of the U.S. as a constant, a fixed polar star of unchanged and unchanging values, like duty, honor, country, God. And he is proud of being much the same way. The places he knows best and loves most are not in flux; certainly not Russell, Kansas, not Bal Harbour...
Just as the president was ready to appear and make his speech, a CNN reporter who had made the fatal mistake of using the rest room at the wrong time tried to get back through to her seat. Since her crew was safely inside the arena, she had to fend for herself. She backed up 20 feet and got a running start. Microphone pointing the way, she ran straight into me, figuring once I was knocked out, entrance would be easy. As I restrained her and yelled for my supervisor, she tried to be rational. "Don't you know...
...grim satisfaction. Its an indication of just how far Russian democracy has progressed that Russian politicos are playing conventional, albeit spirited, electoral politics instead of plotting a takeover. Instead of facing a right-wing takeover attempt like the one that briefly imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev five years ago, Yeltsin must fend off verbal gibes from Lebed. "Its not a country, its a circus," Lebed said Thursday in leaving the government. Lebed's split with Yeltsin has been some time coming; their 11th hour alliance clearly more of an inspired election gambit than a reasoned partnership. Even when the two were allegedly...