Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While this degree of optimism seemed strained, the Laird appointment was a concrete and commendable step. It gives the Administration at least a chance to stem the continuing deterioration in its relations with influential politicians of various stripes. As Laird explained to TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, the pressure on him to serve in this Government crisis kept building for weeks and came from Democrats as well as Republicans. "I had planned not to be here-but then I decided that I kind of had to do it," he said. "It was people like Mike Mansfield and Carl Albert and Hugh...
...Spring's activism was given a decidedly local flavor by the black students waging their struggle 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 prompted unrest; enough to swell the size of the picket lines that circled constantly around the embattled Administration building...
...impetus behind the movement was certainly correct. Indeed, its major problems stem from frequent failures to apply anti-elitist standards against itself. It would be fortunate if this alone proved to be enough to kill the movement...
...tend to side more with Dr. Freud and see that Dr. Levi-Strauss's having the first name "Claude" forced him to compensate creatively for what he lacked as a person. In fact, I think some of the flaws in Dr. Levi-Strauss's thinking personally and structuralism generally stem from an unconscious overcompensation...
Most of the complaints and problems I have tried to deal with stem in some way, usually quite directly, from very human issues in health care. The remedies to these kinds of problems lie only in changed attitudes, changed patterns of interaction, changed expectations from the people involved...