Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubles today stem from the inadequacy of the Nixon Administration in the discharge of its responsibility for managing the economy. Other policies can and will be made, and they will work. When they do. I will be happy to be a bull again...
...voluntary action and subtle cutbacks fail to stem the expected deficits--something administrators are not anxious to talk about--other steps will be taken. According to Walcott's survey of other schools, several food services--including those at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Rhode Island--plan to end their policies of unlimited second portions, and the Wellesley food manager has asked the school's president for permission to do the same...
Part of Mano's success may stem from a frankly religious outlook. In these cynical, pragmatic times, nearly everyone is eager to admire religious faith-particularly if it is someone else's. Mano, an Episcopalian, is a specifically Christian novelist. In his books, God is a respected familiar; eternity is a definite place on the map. There is always an old-fashioned metaphysical confrontation. In his first novel, Bishop's Progress, the bishop and a surgeon angrily reshuffle old arguments about Christian charity. In Horn, a priest and a black leader dispute ethics...
Even in 1972, when the activism was given a decidedly local flavor by black students attempting to force Harvard to sell its shares of Gulf Oil stock, the war added to the tumult. Nixon's decision to increase the bombing and to mine Haiphong Harbor in an attempt to stem the North Vietnamese offensive coincided nicely with the blacks' seizure of Mass Hall. The war reinforced the unrest, swelling the size of the picket lines that circled constantly around the embattled Administration building...
...Laotian agreement is formally signed later this month, as expected, the U.S. will have 60 days to withdraw its hundreds of military "advisers" and CIA agents, who have directed and paid both Lao and Thai mercenaries in their unsuccessful efforts to stem the Pathet Lao advances. The agreement, however, does not specifically mention the estimated 49,000 North Vietnamese troops currently in Laos...