Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhort any slackers, N.R.B. leaders brought in Elder Statesman Billy Graham for some stem winding before the decision was made. "The foundations of religious broadcasting are being tested," declared the evangelist. "Our greatest need is moral integrity!" But the broadcasters required little prodding. "All of them recognize they cannot permit another bombshell to explode at their feet," observed Jeffrey Hadden, a University of Virginia sociologist. One index of public discontent: a poll by the Williamsburg Charter Foundation last week showed that 40% of Americans think it should be illegal for preachers to raise money...
Although rumors of the indictments had been circulating for weeks, no one could be sure that Washington would allow the unusual prosecution. To stem the flow of drugs into the U.S., the Administration has leaned heavily on Latin American governments to root out the drug moguls, whose guns and money have intimidated or bought off local authorities. But never before has the U.S. targeted an individual Latin leader. Coming just two days after the House of Representatives rejected further aid to the contras, the criminal charges against Noriega not only raise the stakes in the war on drugs but presage...
Despite widespread criticism, Washington continued last week to try to stem the spread of the epidemic by educating the population at large. Before the London parley ended, the chief U.S. delegate, Assistant Health Secretary Robert Windom, announced that the Administration plans to mail a new brochure on AIDS prevention to every household in the country later this year...
Relieved of this worry, Stankard began producing a profusion of wild-flower paperweights: painted Trillium, black-eyed Susan, loosestrife, lady's slipper and prickly pear cactus. Sometimes they were shown in their entire life cycle: bud, blossom and seedpod on a single stem. Sometimes their root systems were shown beneath the earth on the underside of the crystal globe. Even as a child, he had a passion for wild flowers. Now, as a working artist, he improved his knowledge of their shape and form by studying flowers he found growing behind his house or on long walks in New Jersey...
...been in the forefront of the campaign to make use of their infants' organs, as a way of making their brief, tragic lives meaningful. Such babies are often born with no skin or skull above their eyes. They have only an exposed bud of a brain and a brain stem that keeps their heart and lungs working erratically. Under current state laws, death occurs when all brain activity has ceased. Anencephalic infants are technically alive until their brain stem stops functioning. By then, however, the increasingly insufficient oxygen supply has ruined any potentially useful organs...