Word: staved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stave off that calamity, the government had appointed a special commission, headed by noted Jurist Lord Wilberforce, to adjudicate the miners' demands. Its recommendation: an 11% to 24% raise, bringing the miners' wages up to a range of $59.80 to $89.70 per week. Union leaders voted first to reject the offer. But later, after a midnight bargaining session at 10 Downing Street, the union leaders agreed to submit the proposal directly to their members...
However, bombing, even when most effective strategically, can only temporarily stave off attacks. As the evidence contained in the Pentagon Papers repeatedly demonstrated, bombing cannot destroy the North Vietnamese potential for fighting and supplying its armies in the South because North Vietnam does not manufacture its own supplies but receives most of them as aid from China and the Soviet Union. To have any long-term effect on the ability of the Saigon government to survive, the bombing must be heavy and continuous as long as there is any threat of a North Vietnamese offensive. Thus, Nixon's Vietnamization strategy...
Leaving his station, the distraught worker approaches two life-sized padded dummies seated on a platform. Picking up a bamboo stave placed conveniently near by, he ferociously attacks the dummies, slashing and swatting them until his fury is spent...
Nixon can still stave off criticism from the right on the strength of his earlier hard line against Communism. Notes Congressman John Schmitz, a John Bircher who represents Nixon's home district in California: "If you get a reputation for being an early riser, you can sleep till 11." Says Chicago Businessman W. Clement Stone, a large contributor to conservative campaign coffers and Nixon's biggest 1968 financial backer: "After 20 years, we'd better face life as it is. Good common sense dictates that we take a hard look at that situation and put aside...
...despair. Near Anchorage, construction of the new Forum Hotel has halted. At the Anchorage airport, the Red Dodge Aviation Co. has abandoned its partially finished $2,000,000 freight terminal and has filed for reorganization under the bankruptcy law. Interior Airlines has also gone to court to stave off creditors. Alaska Airlines is in dire financial straits, as are several construction companies. Many corporations have overextended themselves. Bankers have begun to dry up financial pipelines that were once easily accessible to entrepreneurs. The Alaskan unemployment rate is 13.8%. The state has put up booths at the border and at airports...