Word: withstood
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...billion chunk of France Telecom, reducing the government's stake to under 50% for the first time; on Sept. 2 it was finished. Last month he moved to waive inheritance taxes on sums below €100,000 per estate, suspended a 3% corporate tax, and withstood stiff protests from unions to lay the groundwork for the partial privatization of Electricité de France. He also deplores France's 35-hour workweek, and says it must be changed to allow those who want to work more to do so. And consider the blatant interventionist. Sarkozy brokered the €2 billion state...
Seven seconds later and one more loss added to her record, Love—who had withstood trial after trial all game long, who had single-handedly kept her team tied with the No. 3 team in the nation for nearly three periods—stood with her stick by her side, her left arm resting atop the goal for support, utterly dejected...
...variant strand of the MyDoom virus targeted Microsoft yesterday, but the company said in a press release that its website withstood the attack...
...Long Island on Saturday looking to wrap up its holiday swing with a victory. And while it appeared early on that its game against Stony Brook was a belated-Christmas gift, a late Seawolves charge threatened to spoil the Crimson’s present. But Harvard (6-5) withstood the late push, ultimately emerging victorious...
...scored twice in the first and withstood Dominic Moore’s third-period shorthander to overtake the Crimson for the ECAC lead. This began an eight-game stretch in the rivalry in which one of the teams was first in the ECAC, the only exception being the 2001 ECAC semifinal...