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From then on, however, the Crimson was mired in its own zone as it tried to stave off the relentless UNH attack...
...them draw their financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently. The donors range from restaurant and bar operators to the owners of vast mail-order operations. They will now be looking to the Republican Congress to stave off a hike in the minimum wage, resist health-insurance mandates and block any ideas to shift taxes from income to consumption. Controversial as they are, Gingrich's outside enterprises are probably as important to him as being Speaker. In some ways, they are what made him Speaker. GOPAC...
There, a dye pack protecting the money exploded, emitting red dye and tear gas. Banks place dye packs in bundles of money to help stave off robberv. Pasquarello said. When the packs are removed form the bank, they burst...
...debate culminates, it has come to focus primarily on a single dichotomy--"employer mandates"--which liberals vaunt as a benison to be distributed to heretofor hapless American workers, versus "individual mandates" which curmudgeonly conservatives offer as a rear-guard action to stave off the "potentially disastrous consequences" of the above mentioned liberal benison...
...more attentive administration andbureaucratic changes stave off the need fordisruptive protests today, students and alumnisay...