Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear genie stubbornly refuses to return to its lamp. International conferences and agreements have tried to stem the spread of atomic weapons, but the nightmare of potential nuclear holocaust persists. Recent events, in fact, suggest that the dangers from nuclear proliferation and the atomic arms race are probably greater now than at any time since the first mushroom cloud rose over New Mexico's desert near Alamogordo three decades ago. Last week, for instance, West Germany agreed to sell Brazil facilities and technology that could enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...that dominates this production prevents her from hearing any inner voices. Tom Kneebone makes of the Dauphin a mixture of skittish cravenness and caustic venom, while William Needles' inquisitor is magisterially forbidding. The rest of the cast act like shrill contenders in a debating contest, but that may stem in part from George Bernard Shaw the street-corner agitator...
...legal control of wage settlements, the Chancellor rejected the notion of a statutory wage policy. Hopes for an effective policy of voluntary wage restraint were raised, however, when the T.U.C.'s economic committee drew up a working paper that recommends keeping pay increases below 20% in order to stem inflation and unemployment...
...soldiers who brought along their U.S.-made equipment. Khmer Rouge demands that the equipment be returned-including armored personnel carriers and aircraft-led to tension between Thai and Communist border guards. The Thai government sent 1,000 troops to reinforce 4,000 border police in a determined effort to stem the continued inflow of Cambodian refugees...
...view of some Saigon observers, many of ARVN's current problems stem directly from the Paris accords and the withdrawal of U.S. forces two years ago. The Americans had helped South Viet Nam create an army that the Vietnamese could not maintain without considerable advisory assistance and steady, sizable infusions of equipment. When U.S. support was removed, it was not long before many ARVN soldiers simply forgot what they had learned under American tutelage. "Our G.I.s were always telling us not to bunch up, not to bunch up," laughed a South Vietnamese soldier near Xuan Loc last week. "That...