Word: staving
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...After an uneventful 10th, Arizona loaded the bases in the 11th, only to have Yankee second baseman Alfonso Soriano rob Reggie Sanders with a diving stab to stave off a run. It was now past midnight in the city that never sleeps. If they could have, the D-Backs would have hailed a cab. In the bottom of the 12th, designated hitter Chuck Knoblauch led off with a double, his first hit of the Series. Home run hero Brosius pushed him to second with a sacrifice. Then Soriano smacked a single to right. Knoblauch raced for home. Sanders throw beat...
Thank you, Charles Krauthammer, for your commentary "In Defense of 'Assassination,'" supporting Israel's targeted response to Palestinian bombers [VIEWPOINT, Aug. 27]. Israel is responding as the U.S. would to stave off the wave of indiscriminate acts by Palestinian suicide bombers, who are not martyrs but murderers. The only reason Israel is negotiating is that it wants peace. RON GALLOP New York City...
...tragic but isolated" rebuttal has been the industry's mantra as it has tried to stave off government regulators. The argument has worked in the past, in part because there are few national statistics on the frequency of problems at assisted-living facilities. The most comprehensive study, a 1999 survey of assisted living in four states by Congress' General Accounting Office, found that 27% of surveyed facilities had been cited for five or more quality-of-care violations in a two-year period and that 11% had been cited for 10 or more violations. HHS's new national study will...
...stretchers to receive a week's supply. For two patients, the dose came too late. Exhausted from negotiating through the shoving crowd and from the suffocating heat, they died at the stadium. There are millions of AIDS victims around the world who are willing to try anything to stave off that fate?and pay for it, too. But until the Thai government conducts thorough tests, nobody will know for sure what's the value, if any, of Vichai's little pink pills...
...anti-Arroyo demonstrators attacked MalacaNang in May, prompting an unsuccessful coup attempt. There has been criticism of the appointment of her businessman-husband's cronies to key government posts, and a high-profile Senate race that required all of Arroyo's personal charisma to stave off a humiliating defeat for her Peoples' Power Party. "My reaction to all this? I think: 'What must I do next?'" she told TIME in an interview last week. "I don't dwell on my feelings...