Word: stem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RECENTLY, groups such as the Citywide Parents Advisory Committee have tried to stem violence in the schools by organizing boycotts, demanding that city leaders speak out, and lobbying for better protection for students both inside and outside school. Police have launched a Bureau of Investigative Service inquiry to determine the extent of adult involvement in the teenagers' walkouts, and dozens of community groups, such as the Urban League and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, have assembled informal conferences to discuss ways of cooling tempers within their communities...
...method of choosing the party leader. Constitutional changes were necessary, the Benn forces argued, in order to make the party more accountable to the rank and file. Callaghan and his fellow moderates denounced the plan as a power play that might wreck the party, but they could not stem the leftist tide...
...finance ministers and some 6,000 other leading moneymen were gathering in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, for the annual meeting of the 138-nation International Monetary Fund. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker had hardly arrived when they were besieged with calls for U.S. action to stem the panic...
...work of the notorious "bolt weevils." Three farmers from Villard, Minnesota, are charged with several felonies in connection with the incident. The trial of the three, Mark Hoyum and Bob and Dean Oeltjner, opened in September on charges of aggravated assault and aggravated criminal damage to property. The charges stem from an incident in late August, soon after the latest tower topplings. Hoyum was driving across backroads when company-hired security men, following up all leads in the case, began tailing him. What began as surveillance ended up as high-speed car chase, with the five pickup trucks full...
Their defection appeared to stem from professional rather than political motives, and mainly from a refusal to become sports apparatchiks. Though the aging couple are in superb physical condition, the Sports Committee of the Council of Ministers reportedly insisted it was time for them to retire from performing, and pressured Protopopov to become a coach of younger skaters. "Oleg is very independent," recalled a top international skating figure. "When he refused, that put him in hot water with the committee...