Word: staving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Where was the commissioner in all of this? "We'll see what happens," Bud Selig, the moonlighting Milwaukee Brewers owner, said last Monday. Selig and Budig did manage to stave off the Tuesday walkout by promising to hear Alomar's appeal on Thursday. To add to the bad taste, 50,000 fans cheered and only a few booed as Alomar took the field at Camden Yards against the Cleveland Indians in Game One of their division series. In New York City for the Yankees-Rangers series later that night, umpire Al Clark watched on television as Alomar...
Does that mean that taking DHEA can somehow stave off the aging process? When scientists tested this proposition on animals, they found to their astonishment that it seemed to do just that. When older, slower mice were given DHEA, they became more active and learned as easily as younger rodents to run mazes. Other studies suggested that the hormone may help fight cancer, diabetes and heart disease...
...comrades--not even a marginally redeeming love story, as in Leaving Las Vegas. Drinking themselves to death is an inevitability these men seem to accept. Behind locked doors and chained to their dwindling fifths of J&B in the midst of chaos, they are defensive warriors trying to stave off a mad, mad world that cruelly demands that the drunk be healed. Like O'Brien, they see no point in bothering...
...first and most poignant casualties of the 1996 drought have been the cattle, grazing on blighted fields of stubble. Feed prices have, in some instances, tripled, while prices for cattle have been plummeting. Trying to stave off the inevitable, ranchers south of San Antonio have been hiring day laborers to "burn pear," Texas lingo for applying a butane torch to the cactus and searing off the spines so that cattle can munch on what remains. But many ranchers across the affected regions have given up, offering at auction the creatures they can no longer afford to feed...
...effort to stave off the impending renovations, the committee met with Rudenstine and Knowles on February...