Word: staving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of England's 1,000 licensed gaming houses are fairly clean operations where, as one director says, "Dad and the family can have a bit of a flutter for a fiver." In short, it seems better to establish some forms of government-controlled gambling and try to stave off the racketeers than to let them proliferate underground. The issue, however, goes beyond combatting crime. Life is filled with all kinds of habits that can grow problematic or dangerous, from liquor and sex to the carrying of firearms and the borrowing of money. In all these fields, subject...
Seeking to stave off a threatened loss of accreditation, the trustees of Iowa's Parsons College last week voted to fire the man responsible for its growth from near bankruptcy to a booming, 4,900-student campus: President Millard Roberts. The action was intended to placate the powerful North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which voted to lift Parsons' accreditation by June 30 for financial mismanagement and relaxed academic standards (TIME, April...
Rowing defensively at 34, the Crimson managed to stave off a last-ditch effort by Northeastern, and passed over the line a deck length ahead...
...wage increases along with a demand for foreign TV sets, autos and other frills that Sapir calls sheer "gluttony," Israel's imports until recently have soared far beyond its exports. So large is its trade deficit that the Israeli pound is threatened with devaluation. In an effort to stave off that embarrassment, Sapir moved to cut consumption by raising import duties and holding down wages. He also tried to force more workers into crucial export industries by holding off on new pump-priming public-works projects...
With their contacts in the slums, they could alert authorities to trouble, help stave off riots. Juvenile delinquents might also be rehabilitated more successfully in their home communities than in reform schools; a five-year California experiment along this line, said the President, has shown "dramatically impressive" success in turning errant youths from all-too-promising careers in crime...