Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest collection of such pre-Hispanic gold as survived the ravages of conquistador and tomb robber belongs to Bogotá's Museo del Oro. In an effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations...
...asbestos, suggesting that the fibers are absorbing large amounts of benzo(a)pyrene, the primary carcinogenic component of tobacco. Water commissions are beginning to have problems with asbestos contamination of their supplies. The prognosis for future urban communities is disquieting. As long as there are no substitutes to stem the increasing use of asbestos, nothing short of a ban on the industrial use of the fiber will be able to deal effectively with the problem...
...movies were only an escape--as the old claim went--then when people in Cambridge retreated from political activism they should have gone to the movies more. But the reverse is true, and true because almost without exception the best movies stem from a realistic base that may be transformed, fantasized, or abstracted--they weep in one eye, they may cry in the other, but they are grounded in reality. The Welles's Larry Jackson thinks that the Nixon administration hurt people's interest in good films just as he thinks it crushed the student movement "just after the first...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to Bok and chairman of the advisory committee, spent a good part of his week trying to stem the tide of opposition to his committee's work. He responded to Guinier's charge by saying that the 1969 prospectus on which the Afro chairman is staking his claim has been superseded by 1973 Faculty legislation mandating that the DuBois Institute be established on a University-wide basis...
Though Nixon's campaign might stem his slide in public approval, it could hardly raise him significantly from his recent lows. Two polls taken just before he launched his public appearances showed that he was still slipping in esteem. Gallup recorded a two-point drop in the public's approval of Nixon's performance, to a new low of 25%, while Harris reported a three-point slide in its rating, to 26%. Even the President's support among political conservatives appeared to be fading (see story page 15). Conservative Columnist George F. Will wrote that...