Word: staving
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Ultimately, though, Harvard's success just might hinge on the rooks. If the Crimson wants to stave off tough competition in New Haven and Princeton, it will need a full team effort...
...failed spectacularly in the end -- Bush himself admits it "was not successful" -- it had logic at the time. The original impetus was fear of the Ayatullah Khomeini's Iran. Even though Saddam had provoked the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, Washington began helping Iraq to stave off an Iranian victory. The Reagan Administration removed Baghdad from its list of terrorist countries, exchanged ambassadors, overlooked purchases of weapons from U.S. allies and secretly handed over intelligence about Iran's capabilities and intentions...
...television and a sense of impotence in the supposed new world order are beginning to build pressure in Washington, London, Paris and Bonn to do something. Economic sanctions against Serbia promise no quick solution. Even the airlift of supplies into Sarajevo that began last week seems likely only to stave off starvation...
...more complex role in assuring vitality and optimal health than was previously thought. Vitamins -- often in doses much higher than those usually recommended -- may protect against a host of ills ranging from birth defects and cataracts to heart disease and cancer. Even more provocative are glimmerings that vitamins can stave off the normal ravages of aging...
...over," growled California assembly speaker Willie Brown. He was referring to his career: the U.S. Supreme Court had just rejected his yearlong campaign to stave off California's term-limit law, and the flamboyant Brown, the state's most powerful Democrat, has been in the legislature for 27 years -- more than four times longer than the new law permits. He even compared term limits to the infamous poll taxes that long kept blacks from voting in the old South. "Poll taxes were designed to limit choices. Term limits were designed to limit choices," fumed Brown. "One wore a sheet...