Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charges stem from the 1968 uprisings at South Carolina State College, which resulted in the deaths of four blacks in what was alleged by blacks to be murder by police-the so-called "Orangeburg Massacre...
...have taken unconscionably long to act on some key bills and have cut the heart out of others; the lower house, for example, eviscerated the crucial land-reform proposal by preserving the right of landlords to keep large portions of land worked by their tenants. When Thieu wanted to stem inflation, he felt that the only way to do so was by going over the heads of the elected lawmakers. Accordingly, he invoked a law left over from the days of the autocratic Ngo Dinh Diem to decree a massive austerity program that sought to soak up cash surpluses...