Word: staving
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...Internet parodists to produce material similar to the original than, say, those working in print or broadcast media. Then there is the question of the domain name, or URL. Although the Bush camp preemptively bought dozens of domain names, including georgebush.com, over a year ago in an attempt to stave off such parodies, they were unable to cover all the bases. And thus on the unofficial site in question, it takes quite a while for the reader to realize that not all is what it appears to be. In the non-Internet world, on the other hand, if someone wanted...
What's crazy is that this statement should have been anything but boring. It was Rudenstine's first public effort to stave off pressure for a living wage. His tactic, however, was dull writing, designed to convince the reader that poverty on our campus is just a mundane, technical issue that literally can be left to the boss. Specifically, Rudenstine explained in 550 words that he has a committee looking into things...
...rethinking Details, Golin and Conde Nast fatally tried to imitate Maxim without imitating Maxim. Golin, along with a crew imported from his former magazine, went counter to his sleaze-master typecasting, adding un-Maxim-like service articles on money and career. To stave off the lad mags, he also sexed up covers with screaming tag lines--NUDE YEAR'S EVE--and skin. "Yes, we had women on our cover," he says. "But for the most part, they weren't leaning forward; we weren't picking them for their breast size." (Such is the definition of classiness in guy culture today...
...Pioneers won the fourth game 16-14, but could not stave off the relentless Crimson attack in the deciding game...
...rights for women lies. Egyptian activists are quick to point out that the divorce amendments did not come at the expense of religious law, but were successful precisely because they were justified in the context of religious teachings. Indeed, a crux of the reform movement was its ability to stave off the objections of religious hard-liners by appealing to passages in the Shariah that discuss the inherent equality of men and women...