Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in 1961, Laborites savagely denounced the Conservative government for its introduction of the Commonwealth Immigrants Bill, designed to stem the flood of coloreds into Britain. Sir Eric Fletcher called it a "blot on our statute book." Denis Healey angrily echoed the words of the Times: "The bill strikes at the roots of Britain's traditional liberal attitude towards immigration, at the preservation of good Commonwealth relations, and at the belief that Britain is without original sin in the matter of color discrimination." Healey's pledge: Labor would repeal the act if it came back to power...
...stem imports, the government ordered a reduction in the amount of money available for purchases abroad, also stipulated that British importers stop paying in advance for foreign goods. Estimated saving: $126 million a year. To spur British sales abroad, Callaghan said that interest charges for short-term export credits will be trimmed from 7% to 6%; the government will also delay planned construction projects for schools, hospitals, housing and roads-thus bravely inviting a rise in unemployment in hopes of overcoming labor shortages in key export industries, such as shipbuilding. To dampen domestic demand and bring down export prices...
...Defense Department, in an effort to stem the outflow of gold from this country, has cancelled all cruises to foreign ports by members of the Naval ROTC. About 20 Harvard undergraduates - and scores of other students at the Naval Academy and in 51 other college NROTC programs - will be affected by the directive...
...writing("There is no word less than superb to describe the performance of Lyndon Baines Johnson as he became President of the United States") can be eliminated and no doubt will be in later editions. It will be less easy to eliminate some of the deeper flaws, for they stem from the nature of the campaign itself...
First to be rehabilitated was Joe Stalin himself, whom Nikita had savagely pulled down in the official myth from demigod to scapegoat-devil. Two months ago, Kremlin spokesmen raised Moscow eyebrows by giving Stalin his due for helping Russia stem the Nazi tide. Next victim to be reprieved from obscurity was Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who showed up, replete with honors and ribbons, for last month's V-E-day celebrations in Red Square. Finally, after a decade in the doghouse, the wartime chief and "father" of the Soviet navy, Admiral Nikolai G. Kuznetsov, surfaced with the publication of excerpts...