Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future immigration policy. He has not challenged the quotas established in Public Law 94571, the so-called Eilberg bill, which limits Mexican immigration to 20,000 annually. To enforce this limitation, Carter proposes increasing the guard at the border, a measure that has failed miserably in the past to stem significantly the flow of illegal immigration and offers little hope of doing so in the future. As professor of History John Womack '59, an expert in Latin American affairs has said, "It [a larger border patrol] won't stop those people coming...
...some drop in living standards will have to occur if the new economic policy is to work. One of its aims is to dry up excessive buying power in order to help stem the tide of imports. The cost of many foreign goods is expected to jump by a prohibitive 45% or more. On the less painful side, the government hopes its measures will stimulate local industry to manufacture previously imported goods, find new markets for exports and attract overseas investment. The Begin regime is also quietly counting on another blessing from a reduced balance of payments deficit: Israel could...
Specialists disagree about the causes of agoraphobia. A few doctors think it may stem from hormonal imbalances or overuse of stimulants, even coffee, but most experts are sure the affliction is a psychic one. Freudians consider it a neurotic symptom. Many psychologists see it simply as learned behavior: a patient has an initial breakdown so traumatic that it leaves him in a constant state of anxiety over a possible recurrence, thus producing the phobia...
Most headaches are brought on by anything from simple, tension-induced tightening of the muscles in the head or neck to more serious injury or illness, such as a blood clot or tumor. But migraines belong to a different and puzzling category known as vascular headaches. They seem to stem from a swelling of cranial blood vessels, which may be accompanied by some local inflammation. Some doctors also implicate bodily chemicals, notably histamine and serotonin. Investigators at Baylor University have even reported that over a prolonged period of time migraines may damage some brain cells?apparently without any noticeable mental...
...Cambridge City Council last night unanimously approved the weakest of six legislative petitions to stem the increase in tenant evictions caused by condominium conversions...