Word: staving
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Until then, the battle to stave off closures goes on. The bases under consideration are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps installations, including such well-known ones as Miramar Naval Air Station and Presidio of Monterey in California and McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. None of the targeted bases, though, has defenders more fervid than the partisans of three East Coast naval shipyards: at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Charleston, South Carolina; and Norfolk, Virginia. All three can claim long, distinguished service to the U.S. Navy, are particularly proud of being "Navy towns" and typify the head-to-head...
Indeed, Roger Williams could hardly play at Harvard's level. But although it was severely deficient in every basic volleyball skill, Roger Williams managed to stave off embarrassment against the superior Crimson...
Ultimately, though, Harvard's success just might hinge on the rooks. If the Crimson wants to stave off tough competition in New Haven and Princeton, it will need a full team effort...
...failed spectacularly in the end -- Bush himself admits it "was not successful" -- it had logic at the time. The original impetus was fear of the Ayatullah Khomeini's Iran. Even though Saddam had provoked the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, Washington began helping Iraq to stave off an Iranian victory. The Reagan Administration removed Baghdad from its list of terrorist countries, exchanged ambassadors, overlooked purchases of weapons from U.S. allies and secretly handed over intelligence about Iran's capabilities and intentions...
...television and a sense of impotence in the supposed new world order are beginning to build pressure in Washington, London, Paris and Bonn to do something. Economic sanctions against Serbia promise no quick solution. Even the airlift of supplies into Sarajevo that began last week seems likely only to stave off starvation...