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2) Republicans are helping the NRA stave off serious gun laws by pushing weaker restrictions riddled with loopholes.
Although the vast majority of HIV-infected people in the world cannot afford these new treatments, for those who can, the drugs will possibly stave off disease and death.
From my point of view, so long as there is no functioning social movement on the left, mainstream politics will continue to be a vast wasteland and my main criterion in voting will be how best to stave off the ultra-right lunatics.
The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , and Washington Post each lead with the latest development in the White House's attempt to stave off a Senate defeat of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty--President Clinton's submission of a letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott asking him to postpone his planned floor vote on the treaty.
But now that Gore is throwing elbows back in an effort to stave off Bradley's gains, the gentleman-scholar-statesman is quick to take offense.