Word: staving
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...each Harvard-abutting neighborhood—tony Agassiz, working-class Riverside and middle-class mid-Cambridge—struggles to preserve its current character and stave off the hungry university next door, the Cambridge City Council pays close attention and does whatever it can to keep its constituents happy...
...Boss are more storms in teacups. Ferguson's tendency to steer transfer-seeking players toward his son Jason's soccer agency seems a relatively mild strain of nepotism for the modern game. And news that Ferguson tried to cobble together a consortium to buy the club to stave off a bid by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB will likely cement him more strongly still in the hearts of the estimated 50 million Manchester United fans worldwide who are this book's natural readership. For the rest of us, a 600-page biography, complete with footnotes, appendices and an index, suggests...
...pretty much see the power-plant cycle stopping dead in its tracks," says John Olson, an energy-industry analyst at Sanders Morris Harris in Houston. Selling off some assets may strengthen the power companies' balance sheets, but it's still unclear whether this will be enough to stave off a power-capacity shortage in the next three or four years, when those canceled power plants would have been coming online. Analysts say the Northeast will be particularly vulnerable to price hikes and perhaps even California-style rolling blackouts...
...escalating tide of violence had left him teetering in the face of plummeting poll numbers and mounting challenges from both right and left. Following the U.S. line allows him to reposition himself in the center, alongside his Labor Party coalition partners on whose support he will depend to stave off the collapse of his government as right-wingers defect - and hold his most dangerous challenger, Benjamin Netanyahu...
...left in the game, it became evident that the contest would go down to the wire. After Scott sent the partisan crowd of 5,137 into a frenzy with two more from the charity stripe one minute later, the Cardinal looked like it might be able to stave off the scare from the Crimson...