Word: staving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reforms are motivated by a conviction that majority-rule settlements in Namibia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia will present South Africa with an "adapt or die" situation. Urged by top military advisers, he has ordered a sweeping review of the restrictive laws, known as "petty apartheid," in an attempt to stave off an overwhelming onslaught from black African nations combined with mass rebellion by the country's 20 million blacks. To the howls of hard-line Afrikaners, the Prime Minister has proposed the "improvement" of laws prohibiting interracial sex and marriage. In order to create new jobs for blacks...
...Crimson led off with ace Bobby Hackett, hoping to grab an early lead and hold on. Hackett got the lead, Julian Mack increased it slightly and Jack Gauthier gave Harvard a body-length edge going into the final leg. It was up to Mike Coglin to stave off the challenge of Princeton's 200 freestyle champion, Andy Saltzman...
Meanwhile, Turkey founders. Three months ago Ecevit reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund that allowed the country to reschedule $5 billion in short-term debts and thus stave off bankruptcy. The IMF deal unlocked a package of $1.8 billion in cash credits on favorable terms from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development countries...
...effort to produce genuine majority rule in neighboring Zimbabwe Rhodesia succeeds, South Africa can expect to become the next target of resentful black Africans, who are determined to erase every vestige of white rule from the continent. In these terms, the proposed reforms are essentially an attempt to stave off future revolution...
Faced with the prospect of a winter with expensive heating oil in short supply, the Cambridge City Council last night approved a series of emergency measures designed to stave off the cold for the city's poor...