Word: staved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cornell rebounded to stave off Dartmouth but Harvard (4-1 in the league) leaped ahead of the Big Red (3-1-1) in the Ivy standings by defeating Princeton, 2-0, on Oct. 26. The men's soccer team paralleled its football counterparts, as both shut out the Tigers on the same...
Similarly, in Harvard's early days students would do almost anything to avoid finals. As early as 1791, students were engaging in pranks such as secretly mixing emetic into the communal breakfast pot in order to stave off exams...
Leaders in higher education including President Neil L. Rudenstine are now struggling to stave off the so-called whitening of higher education. Rudenstine has committed himself to this movement, but his efforts prove more complex for him than for most...
...economy. Retail sales for April marked their largest decline in 10 months, for example, while orders for durable goods fell 3 percentin March. Politics may also have played into the decision: Greenspan had said that a balanced budget amendment, on which Congress and the President recently agreed, would likely stave off the need for the Fed to meddle with the rates. The central bankers will have a chance to reconsider that strategy when they meet again on July...
...Mike McCurry said. Tshisekedi, an opposition activist whom the president reluctantly appointed just a week ago, was forced into a vehicle and driven away by six soldiers as he arrived to assume the post. A longtime foe of Mobutu, he had been given the post in an effort to stave off Kabila's advancing rebel forces, which already control nearly half of the country. But Tshisekedi's challenges to Mobutu's once unquestionable authority -- ordering a parliament packed with Mobutu's supporters dissolved, annulling the constitution and offering Cabinet posts to representatives of Kabila's army -- proved too much...