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...Stanfordahead, 63-62, with 3:58 left in the game, itbecame evident that the contest would go down tothe wire. After Scott sent the partisan crowd of5,137 into a frenzy with two more from the charitystripe one minute later, the Cardinal looked likeit might be able to stave off the scare from theCrimson...
Searching for a "cherry waffle knit" to stave off the February chill? Dying for a "sky popover"? If you have a hearty appetite, you can devour pages of seemingly delectable delights--pages of the latest J. Crew catalog...
...coral reefs for which the island is famous. A new Governor, Pedro Tenorio, was inaugurated last week, pledging to reduce the tensions with Washington. "It is in our best interest to see the system work," he says. But Tenorio does not plan to close down the garment industry to stave off a federal takeover. "I think it's premature for me to say 'Close down' after these people invested so much money." Since the Chinese and Korean firms moved in, Saipan's revenues have jumped from $224 million in 1985 to $2 billion last year...
...that everyone would agree. What happened in Kyoto will not, in and of itself, stave off global warming. The treaty now known as the Kyoto Protocol dictates that by 2012 the average output of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide--generated mostly by the burning of fossil fuels in factories, cars and power plants--must be reduced 5.2% below where it was in 1990. But it would take a 60% reduction to make much of a dent in the greenhouse gases that have been building up in the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution...
...keep things as stable as possible, Drs. Mahone and Drake ordered Bobbi to bed just three weeks after the septuplets were discovered. On Oct. 15 she was moved into the Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where she could be put on medication to stave off labor and where she and the babies were within easy reach of the labor team that had already been assembled...