Word: stemming
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...many remember thinking that the war was necessary to stem the spread of communism in Asia...
...largely independent of the U.S. policy or its policy or opposing the North Korean invasion,” he says. He says he had a “great realization” that his initial resistance to the war did not stem from his personal convictions, but rather was handed down to him from the leaders of his church...
...says one Times source. "He was supposed to baby-sit the police headquarters and go to the press conferences, not break news." But that changed after Blair caught fire: newsrooms in New York City and Washington fizzed each time he tossed a new scoop on the table--the grape stem found at a murder scene with suspect Lee Boyd Malvo's DNA on it, his supposed videotaped confession. Some of Blair's colleagues argue that the competitive passion that has driven some of the paper's recent triumphs, particularly its coverage of 9/11, may also have left the impression...
...Recognizing the danger, China announced last week it would provide free health care for SARS sufferers anywhere in the country, meanwhile setting aside $250 million to fight the disease. But it's unclear if those measures will be enough to stem the outbreak in outlying provinces, where the health-care system has been eroded by years of inadequate government funding, and where medicines are largely unaffordable to rural residents who each earn an average of $300 a year. Total medical spending for the 48 million people in the impoverished southern province of Guangxi, for instance, is just half that...
...China's inability to stem tuberculosis cases like Shi's bodes ill for its SARS struggle. Like SARS, TB is a contagious respiratory disease whose spread can be contained through vigilant monitoring of its victims. Though TB has been all but eliminated in developed countries, it still afflicts 1.5 million mostly rural Chinese each year, an infection rate second only to India's. The World Bank recently concluded a decade-long project providing free TB treatment in 13 mainland provinces. It was a stunning success?incidence of the disease fell by 36%. But provincial governments ultimately treated the project...