Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy, far from being resolved, may have just begun. Legalization of unlimited checking may be the only hope for American players to ever progress to the professional level. At best, it's a long shot, because the problems stem not only from restrictive rules but from a general paucity of ice time. There is virtually no way for an American teenager to play organized hockey unless he competes for a high school varsity. Even then, he is limited to about 15 games a year, 48 minutes a game. The development of American hockey requires more rinks, more ice time allotted...
...stock market last week but failed to halt the long upswing of the past four months. The main cause of concern: a rise in short-term interest rates, which signaled an apparent mild switch in the Federal Reserve Board's easy-money policy. Now, to stem the flow of dollars abroad, the board has decided to let short-term rates edge...
...true that subject matter does change the contours of inquiry, but such differences stem rather from the nature of the phenomenon than from the suseptibility of the subject to scientific method or clear interpretation. But objective inquiry must employ Ralph Ellison's admonition to the Social Sciences: "Watch out, Jack, there're people living under here...
They wreck hydrants by hacksawing the control stem or stuffing the shaft with beer cans. They fling bricks at passing fire trucks and often hit the fire men. "Burn, baby, burn!" they chant as their neighbors' homes incinerate, and often as not investigation shows that the fires Smith fights were set by rejected lovers or crafty landlords or teen-age torch parties...
...ideas and technological improvements that were completely changing his own 19th-century world. The revolution that had rocked Europe in both philosophic and industrial terms since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 did not penetrate the unfriendly borders of Russia. Nicholas felt a token Parliament, the Duma, would stem the revolutionary tide of 1905. He approved a nationalistic birthday celebration of the 300th year of Romanov reign and relaxed in his luxurious train on a trip into the country, saying in the movie, "I didn't want to come on this trip, but my God I do love it when...