Word: stems
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soon. Some old hands in Washington argue that Carter's problems stem partly from a tactical error of trying to do too much too soon. They believe he should have moved one step at a time, concentrating at first on a single overriding problem, such as energy conservation, while converting his popularity into support for solid programs...
...attendant water rights-of the Arkansas River. Of hundreds of controversies, however, most turn not on claims to land but on issues of land use, of rights to minerals and water, of fishing and hunting rights, of tribal sovereignty. Some involve prickly political questions that stem from the unique legal status that is supposed to exempt Indians from control or taxation by state and local governments. The Mescalero Apaches of New Mexico have won their claim to immunity from ordinary state licensing procedures in the sale of liquor on their reservations. In Minnesota, the Chippewas (one of whose honorary chiefs...
...despite these largely successful attempts to retrieve order in the midst of chaos, in its third act, War and Peace falls apart. The problem may be that the script pits the determinists against the free choicers of history but ultimately fails to resolve the debate. Or the problem may stem from the weak character and portrayal of Andrei's friend Pierre Busukov, who, taking on a role like that of the Narrator's, stages the final fight...
Some observers believe that the left wave may even have crested, and will now subside. But the poor showing by the Giscard-Chirac candidates in France's angry provinces was a clear warning to the centrist parties that they must revise their strategies to stem further leftist inroads. The government will have to devise more effective means of dealing with rising unemployment than Giscard's gradualist economic reforms...
...question of how much of the union's dissatisfaction is genuine and how much one can lay simply to the inevitable resistance to change within any organization is still an open one. Certainly some of the union opposition seems to stem from personal antipathy towards Gorski, who as a newcomer bent on shaking up the University's police force was certain to encounter a considerable amount of parochial resistance. Nevertheless, the University's response has so far demonstrated little recognition of the fact that the Police Association might have some valid arguments--and as a result there seems little chance...