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There was one last-ditch attempt to stave off this madness, one that was frustrating to the participants but emblematic of the problems of dealing with Milosevic. Last week Holbrooke, who had talked Milosevic into two major deals before, zipped into Belgrade with a "final, final" warning. In an ornate reception room with a Rembrandt on the wall, Holbrooke settled into the sofa on which he had sat for hours on other diplomatic shuttles, his back to a window that looked out onto a garden. Milosevic settled into his usual armchair...
...found Intel. Under Noyce's shirt-sleeves leadership, it soon produced a landmark memory chip and the so-called computer-on-a-chip, or microprocessor. By 1974 Intel was so successful that Noyce traded day-to-day management for industrywide concerns, like leading a consortium called Sematech to stave off foreign competition. He died...
...years, and when his hybrid was introduced in south Asia in the mid-1960s, wheat yields there jumped 60%. Miracle strains of rice and other grains followed in short order, triggering a global green revolution that put the lie to Malthus' gloomy calculation. For his role in helping stave off world starvation, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace...
With all of these individual efforts, the Crimson managed to stave off a smooth Bulldog attack and leave no doubt that it plans on at least maintaining last season's third-place position at this year's Ivies later this month...
...well-dressed elderly woman are about the same as those of being snatched by a low-flying eagle. And, for that matter, a young child's chances of being abducted period are not much higher (especially if you eliminate cases involving custody disputes and other family feuds). Yet to stave off this peril, we're giving kids coloring books that have the psychological impact of the 1950s movie Invaders from Mars, in which the child protagonist learns that anyone--next-door neighbors, even the police--may be a robotic Martian convert...