Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forces in South Vietnam seem to be trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...
...commitment to principles of Jeffersonian democracy and the local wisdom and dedication that have produced American public schools second to none without benefit of a national curriculum. The solution to the U.S. education crisis is not through variations of reform conjured up by a Washington, D.C., elite. Reform must stem from the opposite direction. Provide tax assistance to deprived areas, but spare them Rickover's delusion of omniscience...
Into the ranks of the discounters last week moved 1) another major dime store group, 2) the world's largest drugstore chain, and 3) the world's largest food store chain. Items: > The W. T. Grant Co. will try to stem a sales slide at two stores-in Jersey City and in Milford. Conn.-by turning them into discount houses...
...some extent Chis Cerf and the groovers at the Castle have done this, and where they most closely identify with the rich rock 'n roll heritage, they have been most successful. But the failures stem from more than irrelevance. The lyrics suffer from complexity and a lack of really funny lines. They try too hard to be cute and end up pompous. The average rock 'n roll hit does not usually have more than one or two verses of any consequence, and often there are little more than a dozen major words in the whole song. (A recent, but almost...
...most effective reply to criticism is full information, not an attack on the critic. A common and rather tiresome tactic is the substitution of a diagnosis of the critic's motives for the provision of answers to his questions. We are so often assured that a critic's questions stem from his own emotional reactions to taboo areas, that it becomes impossible to get sensible discussion on these topics. Where there are serious questions to be asked, it should be possible to provide answers...