Word: staving
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When granting Faculty paid leave, the University must strike a careful balance. Everyone wins when professors are given time to devote themselves to important research and stave off burnout before returning to regular teaching—everyone, that is, except the undergraduate students who are unable to study under them. With a well-crafted leave policy, this wouldn’t be a problem; though there would always be professors absent from the community at any given time, the vast majority would still be enriching Harvard by teaching undergraduates. Under such a system, no more than a few professors...
Should Hill lose his job, his fate may have been decided by a matter of 24 points. That was the combined margin of defeat in Columbia’s four closest losses. A different result in those games probably would have been enough to stave off the vultures and give Hill a chance to try his luck again in what figures to be a wide-open race next season...
Crimson senior forward Sam Winter converted both of his one-and-one opportunities and sophomore guard David Giovacchini made the first of his in the final 30 seconds of play to stave off the charging Lions...
Blumberg led Illingworth in each of his first two games, but the Bulldog freshman recovered to stave off the challenge, winning...
Chronically forgetful book-borrowers across campus will now receive a little help in their struggle to stave off library fines—in the form of e-mail reminders two days before their books...