Word: staved
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...more complex role in assuring vitality and optimal health than was previously thought. Vitamins -- often in doses much higher than those usually recommended -- may protect against a host of ills ranging from birth defects and cataracts to heart disease and cancer. Even more provocative are glimmerings that vitamins can stave off the normal ravages of aging...
...over," growled California assembly speaker Willie Brown. He was referring to his career: the U.S. Supreme Court had just rejected his yearlong campaign to stave off California's term-limit law, and the flamboyant Brown, the state's most powerful Democrat, has been in the legislature for 27 years -- more than four times longer than the new law permits. He even compared term limits to the infamous poll taxes that long kept blacks from voting in the old South. "Poll taxes were designed to limit choices. Term limits were designed to limit choices," fumed Brown. "One wore a sheet...
...Buchanan would have a field-day railing against this latest group of immigrants despoiling our nation. Jimmy Carter went through hell trying to get Cuban refugees out of Florida and Arkansas in 1979. Ronald Reagan slammed him for it. Bush doesn't want to have to stave off a similar attack from Buchanan...
...Waves' Howard Joffe had to come from behind to stave off an upset by Shyjan and keep the match from going into doubles play. Harvard scored wins from Wallooppillai and Rueb, but an upset of Zimmerman by Pepperdine's Charles Auffray sent the Crimson to the showers...
...trekked for six months," says a Cuomo adviser. "Mario could beat any of those mentioned if he goes in. Let it run through Super Tuesday on March 10. There's plenty of time." But you never know, says another aide to the Governor. "Better to move quickly to stave off the others and keep it clean. And better to have a deal made public after people like ((Boston Mayor Ray)) Flynn, ((Chicago Mayor Richard)) Daley and, we would hope, ((Democratic national chairman)) Ron Brown, too, come away from New Hampshire urging Mario...