Word: fends
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...suits and ties, with walkie-talkie earpieces--who surround a private home. Often the guards use cones to set up a roadblock down the street, so that if police arrive there will be sufficient time to warn those inside. In many cases, the wedding coordinator is able to fend off the police with an ample bribe (cash or cases of alcohol, which can later be resold...
...cheese, because after all “matza tastes like crust.” Valkin, for his part, uses peanut butter to symbolize the mortar our fathers used to build the pyramids, creating a “PB-and-matza or PBJ-and-matza,” to fend off the forty-years-march lethargy. Those of you keeping tabs on kashrut will note that despite being Ashkenazic, Valkin uses the traditional Sephardic interpretation of the Passover traditions. Harvard football standout Mike Berg also takes this broader view, and boasts of having imparted his love...
...raising rates since then, Greenspan's successor Ben Bernanke is if anything even more reviled. His sin was committed in 2002 when, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board but not yet its chairman, he declared that among the tools the Fed had at its disposal to fend off deflation was one that he termed equivalent to a "helicopter drop of money...
...club sports—or about $400 per sport—which is an appallingly low number considering the costs that each team might face. From intercollegiate travel to coaching fees and equipment expenses, club sports, which, unlike many other organizations, are an inherently expensive endeavor, are left to fend for themselves with this paltry sum and their own fundraising devices. We believe that these organizations, which provide a much-needed structure for physical activity and community building, deserve greater funding from the University...
...geared for a reasonable IPO?," says Carlyle Group co-founder Dan D'Aniello. Carlyle, together with Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners, bought Dunkin' Brands from the French beverage giant Pernod Ricard for $2.4 billion in March 2006. To make that investment pay off, Dunkin' will have to fend off competitors trying to take a bite out of its core breakfast business while it hopes to eat some of their lunch. "The biggest challenge is to be able to achieve growth, given the competitiveness of the market," says D'Aniello. "That's the whole deal...