Word: staving
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Israel asks a great deal of a nation with a 3 percent Jewish constituency. It needs a continued U.S. guarantee of military support to stave off invasion. It needs continued U.S. grants to keep its deteriorating economy afloat. And it has little to offer in return. If Israel expects to sustain a moral claim to altruistic American support, it will have to be perfect. Better than perfect. It will have to be a shining moral example U.S. leaders can show off to the world...
...Anne Willoughby had a dilemma. She is the director of a study begun in 1988 to see if infusions of immunoglobulin (IG) in children infected with the AIDS virus could boost their weak immune systems and help stave off illness. An independent panel that had been monitoring the investigation informed Willoughby early this month that children receiving monthly doses of IG, a protein produced by the body's cells, were faring significantly better than those given a placebo. The youngsters had fewer bacterial infections and fewer hospitalizations. News of the advance in treatment could have enormous consequences...
...Council had fixed back in November as the deadline for Iraq to get out of Kuwait or face war, White House officials were giving reporters and some Congressmen a different impression. Saddam, these officials seemed to be suggesting, might have two days beyond the deadline, or even more, to stave off an attack by beginning a pullout. Kuwaiti sources believe that Saddam got the same message from Arab intermediaries, who were unwittingly fed the disinformation...
Other students found echoes from 1860, when the North and the South amassed troops and arsenals and the muddy streets of Washington were churned by dashing horses carrying men to desperate meetings -- all in vain -- to stave off the coming apocalypse that some sensed, but most...
After nearly a decade of intense study, researchers at Harvard Medical School are beginning to understand how beta carotene, the simple chemical found in carrots, apricots and other vegetables, may hold the potential to stave off fatal diseases in humans...