Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost all rookie agents start out in one of the field offices, where the work centers on catching counterfeiters and forgers. (Created in 1865 to stem the tide of bogus "greenbacks," the Service is still an arm of the Treasury.) Some are later selected for the Protection Division, which is responsible for the safety of the President, the Vice President and their families, ex-Presidents and theirs, the Secretary of State and presidential candidates during campaigns. A number of agents with special skills come in especially handy and often have fun to boot?skiing alongside Ford, for example...
...great extent, the protests seemed to stem not from deep convictions about the terrorists' guilt or innocence but from an emotional, almost automatic hostility to the Spanish dictatorship. But it is one thing to urge liberalization of the Franco regime; it is something else again to expect that regime to tolerate terrorists. Spanish officials were dismayed at the outcry. They note that while Spain has had eight executions since 1960, France has had ten (admittedly nonpolitical) since 1964. The Madrid government is torn between its desire to win European respectability and its response to public opinion at home, which...
...patch of gesso on the smooth cherry-wood - take on a sleek, concise elegance far removed from the naive woodcarvings of country America that provoked Nadelman's hand. He was an exquisite connoisseur of gesture, and his finest works-particularly the suite of woodcarvings to which Tango belongs-stem from his delight in performance: in music halls or burlesques, at plays, piano recitals or even tea dances...
Evans said these attitudes stem from popular beliefs that are reinforced by the media. "There's no hard data on the performance of students," he said. "They have to take their opinions on hearsay, because the kind of information they're talking about is confidential...
Some of the country's most conspicuous problems, in fact, stem not from worsening conditions but from an increased awareness of them. Injustices that earlier generations once silently accepted now have articulate spokesmen decrying them. Yet oddly enough these same people who work so hard for change take so little just satisfaction in the gains that have been made that they can hardly be called happy warriors. They even exaggerate their own pessimism out of a fear that public willingness to overcome obstacles would otherwise slacken. The result is that few times will pass into history like ours, having...