Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concept that subsequently was expanded to include the entire East bloc. The turning point in Brandt's own thinking came on that fateful weekend of Aug. 12-13, 1961, when the East Germans suddenly began to erect the Wall through the heart of Berlin to stem the outflow of East German refugees...
...both university administrators and students everywhere, "doing something" is indeed difficult. Some campuses have avoided the Isla Vista pattern by creating coed dormitories that tend to stem the student exodus. In most places, colleges can neither require students to go back to dorms nor dictate dormitory-type rules for student turf. They can. however, keep in touch with their off-campus students, and lobby for sound local government. "Nobody is seeking a return to the idea of in loco parentis," says Mike Tejeda, 26, a six-year Isla Vista resident who is now a senior. "But the university must realize...
Brandeis' financial woes stem largely from unexpected building costs which resulted in an operating deficit of $1,5 million last year and brought the total deficit to more than $10 million. Despite a drop in alumni contributions this year, the Brandeis administration hopes to balance the operating budget...
Many problems facing the church in Asian countries today stem as much from changing social and cultural conditions as they do from traditional antinomies. In Ceylon, where the nation's 880,000 Roman Catholics constitute 7% of the population, the government's vigorous nationalization efforts since independence have worked against the church: all but a few dozen Catholic schools have had to close as the government has consolidated public education...
...want to be. Even in Picasso's Still Life, 1912, which must have struck its first viewers as an incomprehensible assemblage of planes and lines, the viewer's eye is drawn deep into reality-captured first by the fragments of newsprint, then finding the stem and bowl of a glass, the-edge of a table, the curve of a pipe...