Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, a bewildering array of other government awards was distributed last year. Medals of Meritorious Work were handed out to 200,000 people who have been employed for 25 years at no more than two different private companies. Those who stayed home to stem the decline of France's birth rate were not forgotten. Mothers of five legitimate children received the Bronze ATCH Medal of the French Family. Criteria for winning this award were somewhat less severe for mothers who received gold medals for producing ten children for France, with no questions asked about the fathers...
Jones says the real reasons for Herron's exile from New England go far beyond the party incident and stem from a breakdown in communication between team-leader Herron and Coach Chuck Fairbanks...
...stepped-up policies stem from the recommendations delivered last spring by the Committee to Study the Aspects of the Harvard-Radcliffe Relationship...
...Stem-to-Stern. Acting on a tip, police broke into a storage locker belonging to a resident of Albion Towers, a 15-story Southampton public housing project, and uncovered a 400-lb. cache of gelignite. That is enough explosive material to make about 80 bombs of the type that have terrorized London since the I.R.A. opened a new campaign of random bombing three months ago. The gelignite was later traced to an Irish explosives manufacturer and presumably had been transported into Britain directly across the Irish Sea. But shortly after finding it, police rounded up 46 suspects, including a number...
Some 100 cops and customs officials also swarmed on board the luxury liner, which was in berth undergoing some repairs prior to a Caribbean cruise, and began a stem-to-stern search for more explosives. They forced open crew members' lockers and sampled the air from dozens of compartments with a sophisticated explosive detector known as a "gas chromatography" machine. The QE 2 was clea−her 1,176 closely searched passengers left on schedule Thursday for their holiday−but Scotland Yard's bomb squad will clearly continue monitoring her comings and goings with considerably more than...