Word: staving
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...bringing nuclear weaponry under controls. Charles de Gaulle will now have to pay much more attention to domestic affairs. He has already moved fast in the area of greatest peril, the economic front. Despite France's huge foreign-reserve losses, De Gaulle seems to have managed to stave off any immediate devaluation of the franc. In an effort to ease inflationary pressures within France, he last week allowed new Economics Minister Maurice Couve de Murville to hike the bank rate by 1.5% to 5%, the highest in the Common Market...
...sides actually met, hundreds of reporters and photographers crowded into a barricaded section of sidewalk outside the Hotel Majestic to record delegates' waves as they entered and their growls as they left. (Typical Harriman report: "We met for 3½ hours and had extensive discussions.") To stave off boredom, photographers took to training their telephoto lenses on balconies of apartments near the Majestic, zeroing in mostly on the performance of a petite blonde with an extensive wardrobe of underwear on the fifth floor of No. 20 Avenue Kleber...
...outright gloating-showing at least that Lenin's followers still heed his counsel: "The way to defeat the capitalist system is to debauch its currency." Crowed the Polish trade-union council, Glos Pracy: "The dollar is doomed. It is possible that joint efforts by world financial circles will stave off the crisis temporarily, but this will only postpone the execution." Sneered the New China News Agency: "The capitalist monetary system has in fact collapsed...
...draw in the 191-pound bout enabled Columbia's wrestling team to stave off a closing Harvard threat and pull out a 19-18 victory at the IAB Saturday...
...March that Guest alone was responsible for Aerovias' bad debts, it was only a question of time before a federal marshal showed up at the Guests' Long Island estate. In August, he started tagging their paintings and objets d'art. Winston Guest went to court to stave off the indignity of a marshal's sale, got a month's grace, during which he scraped together the money to cover the half-million-dollar debt, plus $20,000 in interest and legal fees...