Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twofold object of the trip was to publicize the Administration's see-America-first campaign-part of the drive to stem the outflow of tourist dollars-and to boost its new highway-beautification program. Taken along as tour guides were Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall. Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton and Laurance Rockefeller, chairman of a White House conference on natural beauty...
...Punta del Este's Cantegril Country Club on Uruguay's sunny coast, the central bankers of 19 hemisphere nations gathered to discuss Latin America's economic problems and to weigh President Johnson's program to stem the dollar drain. On the Riviera at Cannes, the Common Market Monetary Committee, including a select group known as the Club of Six (see box), met to pass judgment on the British pound and Europe's growing inflation. In Basel, both the Bank for International Settlements and a subgroup called the Basel Club met behind carefully guarded doors...
...current troubles stem largely from Yugoslavia's halfway attempts to liberalize part of its economy while tightly controlling the other part. In a move to decentralize industry, the government last year gave local managers a louder voice in making wage, price and investment decisions. The bureaucrats in Belgrade still held on closely to their control of such big and inefficient sectors of the economy as agriculture, railroads, coal and electricity. Hoping to make those sectors less unprofitable, the government boldly raised prices for their products and services. With that, the newly powerful local managers began falling all over themselves...
...after the election, he discussed the options with new Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan and Minister of Economic Affairs George Brown. Devaluation was rejected. Instead, Labor produced a plan calling for a 15% surcharge on imports and higher taxes on gasoline and incomes. When these measures failed to stem the developing run on sterling, Wilson summoned his Cabinet and again went over the options, from raising the bank rate to borrowing heavily abroad. In the end, Wilson did both, and Lord Cromer, Governor of the Bank of England, was a shrewd adviser as U.S. Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa...
...sheriff's rescue teams worked in the debris, another tornado whipped into sight. "It looked as if it was coming right for us," said Caton. "It looked very big. It didn't have that kind of corkscrew-type spiral. This one looked like the stem off the ugliest kind of mushroom I'd ever want to see." The tornado shifted course, and the sheriff jumped into his car to follow it. He arrived at a residential section about two miles away to see a nightmare of death and walking wounded amid a totally shattered landscape. "Trees were...