Word: fends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been an agile phone warrior, and there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend off endless pleas from AT&T and competitors--MCI and Sprint are the biggest--to switch his or her long-distance calls from one carrier to another. Or pleas not to switch. Or to switch back...
...Finally, they also left behind 1,500 members of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group based in Erbil, to whom the CIA had given financing, arms and--the I.N.C. now claims--an implicit understanding that if anything went wrong, these U.S. allies would not be abandoned to fend for themselves...
Nouveau number-one Yale, on the other hand, finds itself stuck in a cycle of turmoil. During the last few years, it has been in a struggle to overcome financial instability and labor strife. During the spring semester, undergraduates were forced to fend for themselves at mealtime when the dining service workers went on strike. Earlier in the year, Yalies were locked out of their own classrooms when teaching fellows there battled the administration. And unlike Princeton students, Harvard sophomores have never had to live in trailers. Whatever our problems as Harvard, we've never lacked teachers, food or permanent...
...sees Charlotte as "a smug overworked yuppie" and Riker as an uncultured legal drone. Riker is also a Jew, which puts Schmidt in the awkward position of being branded a bigot because he does not enthusiastically welcome him into his family. To complicate the issue, Schmidt must vigorously fend off Riker's mother, an overzealous psychiatrist who treats him as if he were a repressed Wasp. What she does not know is that Schmidt is having a hell of a good time in bed with the 20-year-old Hispanic waitress who also serves him his regular chopped steak...
...agency also approved a medication called 3TC. Although it works much like AZT, the two act as a chemical tag team: after HIV becomes resistant to AZT, it is still vulnerable to attack by 3TC. If it then develops resistance to 3TC, it suddenly loses the ability to fend off AZT. Multiple-drug therapy had finally become possible...