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...rarely seem to do much good. In 1986 Congress enacted a law intended to close the revolving door by requiring that certain former Pentagon procurement officers wait at least two years before going to work for ; contractors with whom they had conducted "substantial" business. But that did nothing to stave off Ill Wind...
...immune system starts to decline at around age 30. For instance, white blood cells that fight off invaders, such as viruses and bacteria, lose their effectiveness as a person gets older. The gradual weakening of the immune system makes it harder to stave off illness...
...They overran all but a corner of the historic former capital at Hue. Communists penetrated the heart of Saigon. They attacked the U.S. embassy, the presidential palace, the government radio station. All this was the work of an enemy that the Johnson Administration had reported to be "struggling to stave off military defeat...
...supply and thus of the interest rates at which money is lent throughout the U.S. banking system. On the job less than three months, Greenspan is suddenly being forced to make rapid and delicate decisions to prevent the market crash from turning into a mushrooming financial collapse and to stave off a steep recession. Says Charles Schultze, who was chairman of President Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers: "Greenspan is in a very difficult period in which he is truly being tested...
Over the next five years, however, Rault managed to stave off five dates with Louisiana's electric chair. On death row he re-emerged as an exemplary citizen, teaching fellow inmates to read and write. With an old typewriter perched on his bunk, he batted out articles for prison ministries and corresponded with dozens of other prisoners who had heard his writings on Christian radio broadcasts...