Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their Brooklyn headquarters, the Witnesses suggest that the decrease in active members may stem from "a problem in receiving accurate reports" because of a new rotation system for officers of local congregations. Outsiders speculate that the Witnesses might be in trouble because of disappointment that the world did not end in 1975, as the faith's leaders had predicted. Reviewing the new figures, the official Watchtower newspaper comments: "As we approach the end, times get harder...
Noticeable differences in effect stem mainly from the relative mix of male and female plants--the female plant being more potent...
...Spain put together. A satellite photo, which can distinguish between desert and arable land, tells a different story. Viewed from space, the real Egypt?the land that man can live on?is small and lotus-shaped. A thin, two-to ten-mile-wide strip of green, the flower's stem, follows the Nile north from the Sudan border; then, near Cairo, comes the blossom, the Nile Delta. In that narrow space of 13,800 sq. mi., no larger than Taiwan, live 37.8 million people, or 97% of the country's population. Almost all the rest of Egypt is brutal...
...attempting to achieve what some perceive as an imbalance, we will lose track of other benefits" that stem from a variety of interests on the board, the dissident Overseer said...
...South African policies. "It's a police state," he says. "It's putting my culture into a straitjacket." Van Tonder, who has now joined the right-wing Herstigle Nasionale Partie and is standing as one of their candidates, has had issues of his own personal newsletter, Die Stem (The Call), banned. He believes, perhaps unrealistically, that the old Boer republics-the Transvaal and the Orange Free State-should be left on their own, allowed to preserve their language and culture in the midst of a predominantly black Africa. "Integration will be the ultimate destruction of the whites...