Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration is concerned about the stock market's recent weakness and hopes to bolster its strength, in part by holding down interest rates. But last week's cut in the prime rate, which bankers reduced from 6% to 5f% after prodding from the U.S. Treasury, did not stem the slump...
Plug for a Park. On occasion, W.W.F. members have used their prestige to help stem the destruction of endangered species. Charles Lindbergh singlehanded stopped the slaughter of the blue whale off Peru in 1966 by going directly to its President and persuading him to order a stay on the hunting of the species by all whalers. Prince Bernhard has pressured the heads of state of several countries to become more active conservationists. When he visited Ethiopia a few years ago, he sent advance notice that he wanted to visit a national park-knowing full well that none existed in Ethiopia...
...make a significant contribution to the city's tax assessors. Students only remain in the city for a certain amount of time, ultimately reaping the benefits of their education elsewhere, they contend. Students's interest in the machinations of the city's political life, therefore, cannot possibly stem from concern over the effect the city's government will have on them directly, since they are only in the city for the limited purpose of their education...
...call for dividend restraint has doubtful economic value. Because dividends are paid out of profits already earned, they do not raise production costs as wage increases do, and thus are not translated into higher prices. Some businessmen suspect that the President's concern with dividends is intended to stem criticism that his recent economic moves are weighted in favor of business. Dividend jawboning will probably be aimed at relatively small firms. Five have been selected for gentle pressure in the next few weeks. Large companies are too visible to get away with a dividend rise, and only small ones...
...most gentie and civilized of lands" [Aug. 23]. Surely you speak in jest. No other country could compete with the imperialistic, bloody past of England. In her notorious history, that "gentle land" has been involved in war with almost every nation on earth. Such an unadmirable trait seems to stem mainly from misguided English efforts to civilize the rest of the barbaric world. I remember that Americans' forebears threw the English out of America in 1776. The Nationalists in Derry are merely following in that tradition...