Word: stemming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Newsom argued that President Bush had used same-sex marriage, as well as stem cell research and abortion, as a political “wedge” to advance his political career, and that these efforts helped him form his own opinions about marriage rights...
...deciding to bar first-years from its dinners, Quincy made the correct decision to stem its overcrowding. Of course, first-years are still allowed to eat in Quincy so long as they are the “invited guests” of a Quincy resident—in other words, when first-year/upperclass interaction actually occurs. And upperclassmen, who generally eat in their own dining halls but who will occasionally eat with their friends elsewhere, will eat in Quincy less often as the novelty of the new dining hall wears...
...just for that memorable hug. It could easily have been delivered by a New Democrat, with the exceptions of his empty call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage-a congressional nonstarter, but a sop to religious conservatives-and his continued refusal to support federal funding for new stem-cell-research lines. No doubt, neither Bill Clinton nor Al Gore would have invaded Iraq unilaterally or lowered taxes on the rich, but this wasn't a speech about that. It celebrated democracy abroad and proposed a reformed bureaucracy at home. Clinton was moving, before Monica Lewinsky derailed him, toward significant...
...word Republican. He defended marriage without having to use the word gay and seem mean spirited. He stood up for "life", without having to use the word abortion. And he invoked a vision of a creepy Blade Runner world of selling human parts and bodies without mentioning stem cell research, which remains popular. And, of course, no mention of Osama bin Laden. Bush remains not only passionate but very smart...
University President Lawrence H. Summers walked into a meeting of prominent female professors yesterday hat in hand, hoping to stem the fallout from his controversial comments on women’s ability in the sciences...