Word: stave
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television, according to the testimony of top executives. In 1987, it spent €130 million on a station called Odeon TV that it hoped to build into Italy's third major network, but which collapsed after three years. To stave off bankruptcy, Tanzi engineered a so-called reverse merger, under which it sold itself to a dormant holding company already listed on the Milan stock exchange. The combined firm then raised about €150 million from outside investors. That enabled Parmalat to go public in 1990, and plug some of the gaps in its accounts; at the time...
ANALYSIS: Off-season acquisitions have done little to improve Brown’s lackluster offense, which again figures to place among the conference’s worst. Sophomore forward Brian Ihnacak, who netted 10 goals and 20 assists last year, is perhaps the only skater talented enough to stave off that almost inevitable outcome. Of course, the Bears did quite well with no scoring last year. So all they need to maintain their position in the ECAC’s upper echelon is replace Hobey Baker finalist netminder Yann Danis. That?...
...down to five, alone, in a darkened Baghdad alley and cut off from help. One soldier was dead. Three others lay bleeding but still alive as fire from AK-47s rained down on the scrambling troopers. Company commander Captain Thomas Foley hollered orders above the din, desperately trying to stave off the attack while getting some kind of aid to his wounded men. One had lost a leg in the massive blast; two others were critically wounded. Grenades were lobbed down from houses and apartments above. Foley banded the survivors together to cover their fallen comrades. A minute elapsed, then...
...University of California, San Francisco, meanwhile, molecular geneticist Cynthia Kenyon is taking a different approach to aging research, identifying a number of genes in roundworms that help stave off disease and extend life. One such gene directs the action of a receptor for insulin and an insulin-like hormone called IGF1, and by manipulating it along with other genes, she can increase the worms' life-span sixfold. "It's not so much that they're just living longer," she says. "What's remarkable about these worms is how healthy they...
...system whole again. "Solidarity," he harrumphs, "has always been against us." In addition to the 10% pay hike, Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, a cardiologist by training, has offered to invest more in equipment and compel insurers to stabilize malpractice premiums. But Cuq says that's not enough to stave off the protest. "We want immediate and concrete improvements," he says, including rolled-back malpractice rates and substantial hikes in surgical fees, though he hasn't said exactly how much...