Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the problems stem from China itself. She wastes few words reducing the rhetoric to human terms, stripping away the publicity releases to reveal the Chinese people. But at this point, she encounters the same obstacles that limit other China-watchers. The enigma of China does not lie in the Marxism-Leninism--western innovations--but in the Chinese themselves, across the cultural...
...raise prices beyond the amount needed for the tax, prices will remain frozen until at least the end of April. After that, increases will be permitted only to cover "unavoidable cost increases." Though no specific guidelines will be created, companies will have to prove that their price rises stem from increasing import costs or pay raises...
...general, they have feigned adherence to "the science game" only to give a veneer of respectability to practices antipathetic to the ethics of a university. These practices are not random lapses; they stem from a philosophy that denies the intellectual and moral premises on which a university is based. Universities are built on traditions of open-mindedness, intellectual discipline, and precision of thought and expression. Leary and Alpert show no devotion to these things...
Things are going well for the anti-war movement just now and it is tempting to believe that nothing Nixon can do now will be able to stem the tide. But we would do well to remember how easily President Johnson was able to stop the peace marches by opening the peace talks at Paris: today's Moratorium is the first large-scale nation-wide Vietnam protest in nearly two years...
...MIDDLE 1960's, while people in central cities have moved rightward politically. White ethnics have felt left out by liberal Democratic programs which offered relief primarily to blacks and Puerto Ricans. Because of gains by these groups, whites have felt increasingly threatened and have looked for politicians who will stem the tide...