Word: stem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current conference organizers and to change the wording so that there might be a conference next year if people thought it wise. But resentment and grumbling was rising in the ranks. The organizers put a new chairman in charge of the meeting to keep order, but he couldn't stem the rebellious tide. Eventually, delegates tabled the whole idea in disgust, thereby leaving the question unresolved and saying, in effect, "If you guys want a new organization to play with, go set one up yourself...
...undersell the positive benefits of SALT II. Despite inevitable drawbacks, SALT II will be a definite asset to the U.S. position. It will stem the most blatantly threatening and currently costly aspects of the nuclear arms race. As Carter pointed out in his speech last week, the treaty will limit both sides to 2250 missile launchers and 1320 missiles with multiple warheads (MIRVs). It will require that the Soviets cut back their missiles and launchers by 250, ten per cent of their total force, while the U.S. will be able to increase its own stock of missiles and bombers with...
Volpe believes that a harsher attitude by judges would help stem the problem. Says he: "An art thief is entertaining, romantic. I've seen cases where the thief has pleaded guilty and gotten no sentence at all." Equally helpful would be better security. In San Francisco's De Young Museum, for example, an electric "key system" to ensure that guards made their rounds was disconnected three years ago. In Chicago, the C−zannes had been kept for two months in a storage room along with brooms and stepladders while a gallery was being remodeled. The theft...
Progress seemed close at hand when Carter took office and pointedly made López Portillo his first state visitor. The U.S. President welcomed the meeting as an opportunity "to correct some of the long-standing economic problems of our two nations." Instead, under pressure from labor unions to stem illegal immigration, Carter and Congress beefed up border patrols and made employers of illegal aliens subject to fines. The U.S. urged Mexico to crack down on drug smuggling, but then became dismayed when young Americans ended up in Mexican jails...
Einstein says there is a definitive answer and, therefore, no paradox. Be cause of other relativistic effects that stem from leaving and returning to earth, if one twin departs on a high-velocity space journey, he will be younger than the earth-bound brother when he returns...