Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonacceptance. His maladjustment seems to stem from a feeling of nonacceptance by the adult world. "I'm affecting millions of people's lives in some way," he complains, "but I'm not supposed to be human. We're the only ones communicating with the teenagers. They are so prone to anxiety and destruction, and they can't intellectualize their wounds. Breaking up with a boy friend is just as realistic to them as it is to a 30-year-old. Our music helps them to understand. If we're not what's happening...
...owned banks was affected, a fact that led to rumors that Peking agents had done their bit to help the panic along. On the air, the Governor pointed out that the problem was not financial weakness but only a shortage of Hong Kong's local paper currency. To stem the run, the government ordered 5,000,000 British ? 1 notes flown from the Bank of England by chartered jet, imposed a temporary $17.50-a-day limit on cash withdrawals. With another ? 35 million in bank notes scheduled to be flown from London soon, the run subsided by week...
...spend, because nothing has yet diminished the wild beauty of a ski run, the challenge of modern technique, or the elan of apres ski -- three of the most rewarding aspects of the sport. The parallel christie is at once more attractive, more fun, and less dangerous than the stem turn; it facilitates controlled skiing on steep slopes as well as quick linked turns on narrow trails...
...current confusion and frustration in new-math teaching do not stem from any lack of Popsicle sticks. The heart of the matter, as James Gates, executive secretary of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, points out, is that most of the nation's 1,600,000 elementary-school teachers are insufficiently trained to teach math -either new or old. Many teachers who spend a fifth of their workday on math have not taken any math courses themselves since the ninth grade...
American foreign policy confronts its greatest problems in trying to deal with countries in these non-Western regions. Many of these problems stem quite obviously from a lack of knowledge and understanding of these countries that more extensive long-run research would do much to remedy. The Ford Foundation's stress on the value of "inter-disciplinary and comparative research" was especially welcome in this respect, for a truly "cultural" understanding of non-Western regions has not yet been approached...