Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exigencies of the world market. A price rise in steel. Kennedy told the nation on TV. would set off another U.S. "inflationary spiral'' that "would make it more difficult to withstand competition from foreign imports, and thus far more difficult to improve our balance-of-payments position and stem the outflow of gold...
Bothered by Bottlenecks. Some of Studebaker's troubles stem from the fact that the basic design of its Lark has not changed in four years while consumer tastes in cars have. But even more crippling has been a series of production snafus...
...more than a century, cricketers in England have been divided between ''gentlemen,'' who were amateurs, and "Players," who were professionals. The class lines stem from the rural origins of cricket : local squires led their villagers out to do battle honorably on the green each weekend. As cricket became bigtime, tradition required that the team captains should be Gentlemen, in order to set the tone for the professional Players, who did most of the big hitting...
BOAC's losses stem largely from its decision to buy British aircraft. In 1955, it ordered a fleet of sleek, new Comet4 long-range pure jets and, after delivery in 1958, saw them made obsolete within a year by more economical, longer-range U.S. Boeing 707s. Now BOAC has 16 Boeing 707s; but it is stuck with 60 prop planes, propjets and Comets, whose value, according to the last BOAC annual report, is "?30 million less than book value...
...goals. With Davies having moved up front, the Crimson defense tired late in the game. The Princeton game may pose much the same problem, with a late Tiger press bringing havoc around the Harvard goal. Lou Williams and Terry Winslow at fullback have been the only defensemen able to stem repeated attacks...