Word: staving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson led off with ace Bobby Hackett, hoping to grab an early lead and hold on. Hackett got the lead, Julian Mack increased it slightly and Jack Gauthier gave Harvard a body-length edge going into the final leg. It was up to Mike Coglin to stave off the challenge of Princeton's 200 freestyle champion, Andy Saltzman...
Meanwhile, Turkey founders. Three months ago Ecevit reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund that allowed the country to reschedule $5 billion in short-term debts and thus stave off bankruptcy. The IMF deal unlocked a package of $1.8 billion in cash credits on favorable terms from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development countries...
...effort to produce genuine majority rule in neighboring Zimbabwe Rhodesia succeeds, South Africa can expect to become the next target of resentful black Africans, who are determined to erase every vestige of white rule from the continent. In these terms, the proposed reforms are essentially an attempt to stave off future revolution...
Faced with the prospect of a winter with expensive heating oil in short supply, the Cambridge City Council last night approved a series of emergency measures designed to stave off the cold for the city's poor...
...alliance" between the nonaligned movement and the "socialist world," meaning the Soviet bloc. In Havana the pro-Soviet drive can probably count on the support of such far-flung fellow Marxist regimes as Angola, which still harbors Cuban troops on its territory; Afghanistan, which relies on Soviet assistance to stave off an Islamic insurgency; and Viet Nam, which has been a fully official Soviet ally ever since its "peace and friendship" treaty with Moscow last year...