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Rowing defensively at 34, the Crimson managed to stave off a last-ditch effort by Northeastern, and passed over the line a deck length ahead...
...wage increases along with a demand for foreign TV sets, autos and other frills that Sapir calls sheer "gluttony," Israel's imports until recently have soared far beyond its exports. So large is its trade deficit that the Israeli pound is threatened with devaluation. In an effort to stave off that embarrassment, Sapir moved to cut consumption by raising import duties and holding down wages. He also tried to force more workers into crucial export industries by holding off on new pump-priming public-works projects...
With their contacts in the slums, they could alert authorities to trouble, help stave off riots. Juvenile delinquents might also be rehabilitated more successfully in their home communities than in reform schools; a five-year California experiment along this line, said the President, has shown "dramatically impressive" success in turning errant youths from all-too-promising careers in crime...
...system called oyabun-kobun (leader-adherent) that closely resembles the ward-based political structure of American politics in the late 19th century. In his battle to retain the presidency of the party last December, Sato had to meld the miasmic wishes of a dozen cliques in order to stave off the challenge of former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama. He won with a hefty 119-vote margin. The "black mist" corruption charges raised by the left-charges that, in typically Japanese style, were never substantiated (TIME, Nov. 4)-did little damage to the party's immediate aims...
...iron, has been named godfather. The priest is puzzled by the throng crowding his church for the baptism, but it goes off well since everyone knows that "Catholicism and Voodoo blend with and understand one another." The final theme describes how the people of a new favela stave off the combined power of the city, state and police...