Word: staved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE are many, however, who themselves are skeptical that Brewster can do at Harvard what he has done at Yale. First of all, he entered Yale without any reputation to live up to or enemies to stave off. His reputation is now well established; were he to come to Harvard, he would be expected to at least meet that reputation and most probably surpass...
...taxes, which helped vaporize the hoped-for surplus. The current fiscal year looks still worse. "If everything goes wrong," as one Administration official put it, the deficit could climb as high as $15 billion. Some Administration experts conclude that a $7 to $10 billion deficit may be necessary to stave off a serious recession...
...participate in an "in" joke, but the self-consciousness they enforce and the sniggering communal sensibility they impose lay heavily on the play. The emotional changes which should animate the third act are lost; the tension which should carry us over the hump of the comedy-only tautness can stave off boredom in humor-is flaccid...
...Republican and support the President, and you're convinced that he's getting out of Viet Nam?" he asks. His actions in the fight over the Cooper-Church amendment answer his question. Dole has been in the forefront of the battle to water down the amendment and stave off a Senate showdown until after the President's June 30 deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Cambodia...
...important one for Harvard, which must stave on challenges from the Cadets and Penn in defense of its Hep title a week from now at Yale...