81.   BofA fought off the takeover attempt and maintained its independence.

82.   BOSNIA The other contentious issue is the continuing war in Bosnia, where a Moslem government is fighting off efforts by the Serbian minority to wrest control.

83.   Block already has fought off prostate cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoma and currently undergoes dialysis three times a week for treatment of a serious kidney ailment.

84.   A functional family who can fight off pirates and still get along?

85.   A more astute question about fighting off aliens comes from the movie itself.

86.   A marriage of the two medium-sized companies, some analysts say, would let them fight off foreign competitors rather than hurling china at each other.

87.   A plant with a gene to fight off insects might spread that gene through pollination, creating, say, weeds that can no longer be controlled.

88.   A woman in my office told me that she, too, had been attacked but had been able to fight off her would-be rapist.

89.   A wrestler named Joseph Romano grabbed a kitchen knife and, for a few valuable moments, fought off the intruders in the stairway.

90.   According to accounts prepared shortly afterward, Johnson fought off the Germans and rescued his friend, despite being wounded.