Word: staves
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...changed over time with appropriate policies, Roubini notes, but the government has been "woefully slow" to implement them. In the months ahead, China's economy will instead be driven by the government's $585 billion stimulus spending program and easy credit. This may prove to be enough to stave off a major economic contraction, but government measures alone will not rekindle high growth rates...
...final communiqué expected later today. But amid squabbling in the run-up to the meeting, with France and Germany especially vocal in their objections to making specific commitments, the figure has been recast as the collated estimate of measures already planned as the world tries to stave off a prolonged downturn, and participants are not being pressurized to agree to specific numbers. The latest leaked draft communiqué, seen by the news agency Reuters, makes no firm pledges on additional fiscal stimulus, saying simply "We are committed to deliver the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth...
...women’s lacrosse team made sure its opponent never left the doghouse yesterday afternoon, taking down Connecticut, 14-12, in a non-league matchup. The Crimson (3-3, 0-1 Ivy) nearly blew a five-goal halftime lead, but in the end it did just enough to stave off a late charge by the winless Huskies (0-8).“We came out strong, but we didn’t finish the way that we wanted to,” senior Kaitlin Martin said. “We want to be the team that puts them away...
...bill includes a proposed 19-cent increase to the state gas tax that would help stave off the MBTA’s projected $161 million deficit in the next fiscal year...
...stave off an eruption. How do you measure success and failure? First, we want to save lives. If there's an evacuation needed, a civil authority will call it, but we want to give them the best information so that people can be moved out of harm's way. The other category is minimizing economic and social disruption during the period of unrest surrounding an eruption. If you've got volcano unrest and you don't know the extent of the eruption, you really tend to overreact when you don't need to. We can also give practical information - telling...