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...Buchanan would have a field-day railing against this latest group of immigrants despoiling our nation. Jimmy Carter went through hell trying to get Cuban refugees out of Florida and Arkansas in 1979. Ronald Reagan slammed him for it. Bush doesn't want to have to stave off a similar attack from Buchanan...
...Waves' Howard Joffe had to come from behind to stave off an upset by Shyjan and keep the match from going into doubles play. Harvard scored wins from Wallooppillai and Rueb, but an upset of Zimmerman by Pepperdine's Charles Auffray sent the Crimson to the showers...
...trekked for six months," says a Cuomo adviser. "Mario could beat any of those mentioned if he goes in. Let it run through Super Tuesday on March 10. There's plenty of time." But you never know, says another aide to the Governor. "Better to move quickly to stave off the others and keep it clean. And better to have a deal made public after people like ((Boston Mayor Ray)) Flynn, ((Chicago Mayor Richard)) Daley and, we would hope, ((Democratic national chairman)) Ron Brown, too, come away from New Hampshire urging Mario...
...will not suffice. "Some colleges will either have to consolidate or shut down," says Sara Melendez, who until recently served as vice provost and dean of arts and humanities at Connecticut's University of Bridgeport. The school, hard hit by the deterioration of its hometown, has been struggling to stave off its own demise. Late last year it began negotiations for an emergency loan of $2 million to $3 million in order to keep operating. Administrators now believe that the school can survive only by merging with nearby Sacred Heart University, though the law school prefers another partner...
...commonwealth has managed to stave off, at least for the moment, the threat of an outright economic war between the sundering union's republics. That prospect played no small part in pushing the commonwealth's founders together. When Yeltsin, Kravchuk, Belorussian leader Stanislav Shushkevich and some aides gathered at the Belovezhskaya Pushcha dacha, a forest retreat outside the city of Brest, on Saturday, Dec. 7, they appeared to have no intention of declaring the old union dead and founding a new association. But they quickly found they could not come to any other agreement -- and agreement was imperative...