Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herald Examiner was once the country's largest afternoon daily. Since 1967, however, it has seen its circulation slide from 729,000 to a paltry 238,000. The paper switched to morning publication in 1981, but that attempt to accommodate modern reading habits did little to stem the continuing losses. Analysts also blamed intense pressure from the aggressive and highly respected Times (circ. 1.1 million) and from successful suburban papers, such as the Daily News of Los Angeles (186,000), based in the San Fernando Valley, and the Orange County Register...
...stop the bad feeling, bitterness and alienation that stem out of arguing over the legality and morality of abortion," said George P. Cassidy '90, co-director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Progressive Alliance for Life. "Let's improve the conditions that make abortion such a prevalent reality...
...Computer Virus" earlier this month. Hackers trembled at the prospect of a terminal illness which would wreak destruction upon term papers, lab data and anything else within the grasp of its electronic claws. A Macintosh user down the hall, immune to such plagues, offered some timely advice to stem the virus's spread...
...could speculate endlessly about the source of our fascination with catastrophe: it could stem from an intrinsic human penchant for the morbid, from a profound national boredom rooted in suburbanization, from an intense nervousness about what the future holds for those who lived through the profligate America of the 1980s, or from any other number of conditions or some combination thereof...
...example, asks others not to cut their forests, then it will have to be more judicious about cutting its own. If Americans wish to stem the supply of hardwoods from the fragile jungle or furs from endangered species, then they will have to stem demand for fancy furniture and coats. If they wish to preserve wildernesses from the intrusions of the oil industry, then they will have to find alternative sources of energy and use all fuels more efficiently...