Word: stave
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...while Harvard’s penalty kill units had heretofore struggled, Friday night saw the Crimson quartets stave off every last Engineer rush...
Harvard opened up a 27-25 lead, but Johnson & Wales closed the gap to pull even at 27. An unforced error by the Wildcats gave the Crimson a game point at 29-27. Junior outside hitter Brandon Blanchet contributed a block, which allowed Johnson & Wales to stave off the first. But senior outside hitter Juan Ramos came through with a kill to give Harvard the first game...
...more essential B vitamins, especially for women of childbearing age, and a little bit--100 micrograms a day--goes a long way toward preventing spina bifida and other birth defects. That's why the U.S. government requires that all grain products be fortified with enough folate to stave off these so-called neural-tube defects...
...drew catcalls even from Vladimir Putin's own economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov. Managers from Rosneft turned up on New Year's Eve at Yuganskneftegaz's Siberian HQ to claim the keys. Meanwhile, in Houston, Deutsche Bank is challenging the temporary bankruptcy protection won earlier by Yukos lawyers hoping to stave off the sale. The bank argues that Texas law has no place in a Russian tax dispute. The ruling prompted Putin to crack: "I am not even sure the judge knows where Russia is," but a procedural hearing is set for this week. Yukos' lawyers say that even...
...Lanka and India immediately after the undersea earthquake, which would have given two hours to warn coastal residents to move to higher ground. On Sunday, there were no such communication channels - and no evacuation protocols in place. Still, the technology exists to provide early warnings, but not to stave off the forces of nature. Indeed, while global warming had no part in Sunday's events, studies of climate change have nonetheless warned that in the decades ahead, the planet's oceans will produce increasingly volatile, and deadly weather patterns along the coastlines. Sunday's deadly waves offered a sharp reminder...