Word: fends
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...draped across six of the NYSE’s Corinthian columns, a line of people waiting for the markets to open presented a unique Wall Street sight: the suited brokers clutche steaming coffees in one hand and cell phones in the other, plotting stock strategy through surgical masks to fend off the soot and smoke that still fogged...
...Cappella Jam—a Freshman Week institution which draws droves of first-years to hear Harvard’s singing groups perform—was shaped by a Crimson Key Society push to shorten the evening, leaving one regular member of the a capella scene to fend for itself in its efforts to gain name recognition from the Class...
...Cincinnati's most important mayoral contest in decades. The city is still trying to recover from the riots that broke out last April after an unarmed African-American man named Timothy Thomas was shot and killed by a white police officer. Now Luken, who is white, is trying to fend off Fuller, an African American, who sees the race as a referendum on Luken's handling of the unrest. (Cincinnati, pop. 331,000, is 43% black...
...Jennifer Thomas was trying to fend off the media glare, flight attendant Anne Marie Smith was getting maximum exposure. She made the cable-network rounds and spent two days at FBI headquarters in Washington. Smith's story has grown increasingly sinister. Her lawyer, Jim Robinson, told Fox News that Smith had found "neckties tied together underneath [Condit's] bed, as if someone had been tied up," and that Smith had grown disturbed near the end of their relationship at some of Condit's "peculiar sexual fantasies." The lawyer didn't elaborate. On Friday night, on Larry King Live, Smith declared...
...going to win this PR war? A lot depends on the condition of the economy next year. Republicans believe they can fend off Democratic attacks for at least six months. Voters will be getting rebate checks this summer, which should make them happy, even if the checks are small. They'll also appreciate the drop in marginal tax rates when they fill out their taxes at the beginning of next year. And those moves are bound to stimulate the economy some. The critical question is whether the economy can turn itself around by June of next year, when voters start...