Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better comparison would be with Pittsburgh. Ford's project and Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle command views not of a shimmering lake but of busy riverfronts. Moreover, the Fords in Detroit, like the Pittsburgh Mellons, have clearly been stung by criticism that they have not done enough to stem the deterioration of the city where they base their fortunes. Henry's brother, William Clay Ford, plans to move his Detroit Lions football team to Pontiac, Mich., for example, and Ford Motor Co. is building a $750 million commercial and residential complex in nearby Dearborn. Both projects threaten...
...occurred during the time span covered in the chapter. By juxtaposing the events that were taking place outside of the West with those that are covered in the chapters. Brown not only gives one a more precise chronological grasp on the particulars, but also illuminates the historical ironies that stem from America's polyracial composition. Thus, for example, the same government that congratulated itself for passing the 13th and 14th Amendments--in the provisions of which Indians were expressly excluded--was simultaneously planning and perpetrating genocide against the American Indian. Moreover, black soldiers, called "Buffalo Soldiers" by the Indians, were...
Another reason which Bolinger points out is that a student who learns in a language class against his will is likely to bring down the level of the class. This unwillingness can stem from dislike of the language learning process or from more deeply rooted mental blocks...
Some of the protests are clearly motivated by racism and unreason. Other objections, though, stem from parents' not unfounded fears that the buses will bring the corrosive problems of the ghettos to "their" schools, or take their children into the midst of the ghettos' often violent, crime-ridden culture. White parents fear that their children will be exposed to what blacks have learned to hate?the rapes, ripoffs, robberies and dope addiction that have turned all too many inner-city schools into blackboard jungles where learning is less important than learning how to survive. Beyond that, whites who have moved...
...Missionaries all, they were Southern Baptist laymen-farmers, mail carriers and bankers. Their task: to help the struggling Spanish Baptists stage an evangelistic crusade. "The Bible was a story of people who walked in faith in a hostile land," declared Dallas Cattleman L.S. Rowland in a stem-winding oration, translated from roughhewn English to smooth Spanish by another missionary. "The truth is that we may move all of Spain...