Word: staved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early report from France--where else?--finds more benefits from drinking wine. For reasons that are unclear, enjoying it daily--in moderation--may help stave off ALZHEIMER'S disease...
...Northern lands; the towering presence of her beautiful and world-wise best friend, Jane Singh, fills her dreams with images of willowy, "dusky maidens" welcoming Saskia the Wanderer into distant ports. Carefully balanced between worlds, with the imaginative richness of her inner ocean just managing to stave off the outside world of adolescent rebellion and incipient high-school geekdom, Saskia's mental dialogue with the reader will remind many of us of ourselves at that paradoxically selfabsorbed, doubting and arrogant, callous and tender...
Meanwhile, the plight of Yellowstone's buffalo only gets worse. As riflemen dispatched more than 50 animals last week, hundreds of others, weak from hunger, lumbered through the thick drifts trying to stave off starvation by chewing on whatever bark and pine needles they could reach. Some good will is coming from the situation, however. Meat from the slain animals, properly treated, is being distributed to needy Indians and other groups...
...Beijing has dared face the high-risk social and political consequences of cutting off the subsidies that keep these plants working. Instead Beijing has been pumping billions of dollars into them to stave off their bankruptcy. Shutting down the biggest, most inefficient, monopolistic enterprises would throw millions out of work. Already, wildcat strikes and noisy demonstrations have disrupted several regions...
...changes in the constitution. He also made a couple of appearances at the Kremlin but they served only to underscore the harsh fact that Yeltsin's primary task these days is simply to keep himself upright and ticking. If he can manage that, the Kremlin may be able to stave off an early election and avoid succumbing to the impulse to tamper with an already flawed constitution...