Word: stave
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...cases the disease itself--are almost entirely preventable. There are better techniques for monitoring diabetes and more effective drugs for treating it, and a major study published last year shows that by making only modest changes in diet and exercise, people at high risk of Type 2 diabetes can stave off the disease for at least three years and perhaps a lot longer (more on Type 1 in just...
...buzz caught the attention of Angels' director, Mike Nichols, who invited Kirk to audition for the role of Prior. But that couldn't stave off his self-doubt when confronted with the enormity of Angels, which Kirk calls "the play for my generation of New York theater guys...
...credit bureaus--Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Consumers will also be able to opt out of having financial firms share their personal data for marketing purposes. And creditors will have to tell consumers before reporting negative information to credit bureaus. Such provisions should help consumers control their credit information and stave off the rise in identity theft, which cost individuals $5 billion last year. Still, many consumer groups opposed the federal rewrite because it prevents states from enacting stronger consumer-protection laws of their own. --By Barbara Kiviat
...Qaeda operative last year as he passed through France on his way to London. And British police have detained 21 people (some of whom have since been released) under British antiterrorism laws in the past two weeks. Are police methodically rolling up terror networks - or frantically trying to stave off a suspected holiday attack? Perhaps a little of both. "There are very big, very important police operations under way [in the U.K.]," notes a senior French antiterror official. "Concern is high that attack plots may be advancing swiftly. I've never seen the British quite this alarmed." British authorities...
...infected--has got doctors and folks who eat at ChiChi's scrambling to come to terms with a disease usually considered pretty benign, at least compared with its more deadly cousins, B and C. As thousands in the Pittsburgh area lined up for shots of immune globulin, which can stave off infection if given quickly enough, disease detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traced the problem to a bad batch of scallions, probably from Mexico...