Word: fends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...larceny, a felony. One clairvoyant allegedly convinced a client that rubbing her body with raw eggs and bathing in special potions would lift a curse. The cost of that exorcism? About $500,000. A similarly inventive psychic encouraged an undercover cop to buy 90 candles, at $55 each, to fend off evil spirits...
...residents are sick of it. At the funeral, grievers bellowed amens when the Rev. Williams asked the assembled politicians to do more to catch criminals and--here the loudest cheers went up--protect witnesses. Many people here have come to believe that cops abandoned B.J., left him to fend for himself in the same community where the man he would name as a criminal was living...
...remains to be seen, of course, how long the big guy can tell struggling Minnesotans to fend for themselves while he drives his Porsche out to the 32-acre horse ranch, the Governor's mansion or the lake cabin. But the truth is, it's going to be hard for him to screw things...
...Kennedy and Connecticut's Chris Dodd. Clinton accepted that he was going to be impeached but insisted he wouldn't resign or even admit to perjury because he did not believe he had lied. What he wanted now was assurance that there were enough secure votes to fend off conviction in a Senate in which ouster would require a dozen Democrats to join all the Republicans. That large a defection seemed highly unlikely. But impeachment is a world where sure things dematerialize from one day to the next. As a senior Democratic Senate staff member put it, "We were watching...
...Medicare cuts. To act as his emissary to the Senate, Clinton would like to bring on board George Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, whose job will be largely to explore what many on the President's team believe is just the slimmest chance of a deal that would fend off a full trial. The President's lawyers, David Kendall, Charles Ruff and Greg Craig, are already in all-out pretrial mode, aggressively mastering the details of the evidence and planning strategy for questioning witnesses...