Word: stave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the decision was handed down, the Shapp administration has been scrambling desperately to stave off bankruptcy. It has resorted to various stopgap appropriation measures and to short-term borrowing. In the meantime, it has helplessly accumulated a debt of more than $200 million. Shapp is not sure whether the government will have to refund the taxes it has collected to date or whether it can use them as credit toward some alternative tax that will be acceptable to the state court. Says the Governor's financial aide, Ed Simon: "We're right back where we started when...
...make money - some $2.5 million from 40 pictures - but part of it he gave away and the rest he lost in poor investments. For the past several years he was hounded by creditors. When he died, he was on a business trip trying to close one last deal to stave off bankruptcy...
...name during the battle. As history has it, the V.M.I, cadets returned to their barracks at Lexington one night after a commemorative ceremony for their old professor, General Stonewall Jackson, who had died the previous year at Chancellorsville. Then the boys got the word: they were needed to help stave off the Yankee advance...
Pete Varney's two-run homer gave Harvard a three-run fifth inning lead, but it took a good relies job by J.C. Nickens and a clutch throw by Dave Ignacio to stave off a Springfield rally in the ninth and preserve an 8-7 Crimson victory yesterday at Soldiers' Field...
Harvard is still suffering from an inability to stave off its opponent during man-down situations. Against Navy, the Crimson was penalized 16 minutes, and the disciplined Navy offense put in five goals on the same man-up play. These tallies helped the Midshipmen build up an early 6-2 lead which Harvard could not overcome...