Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech and training workshops stem from a College effort to be more attentiveto dating dynamics, said Porter-Honnet. "We'retrying to help people start a dialogue in thefreshman dorms and houses on relationships," shesaid...
Farm policy, in other words, is the tar baby of political economy through most of the non-Communist world: an intract-able mess that seems to get ever stickier. Communist nations have agricultural headaches too, but theirs stem from too little production caused mainly by a lack of incentives for farmers. The root problem in the free world is the exact opposite: high price supports and other subsidies have encouraged farmers to grow bigger crops than markets can absorb. In Western Europe, for example, agricultural output has been growing four times as fast as food consumption; in the U.S., farm...
Schwab has persistently criticized fellow Bank-America board members for indecision in cutting staff and closing branches to stem the company's hemorrhage of red ink. In February, Schwab was among the minority who backed an unsuccessful bid by Sanford Weill, the former president of American Express, to infuse the bank with $1 billion in new capital in exchange for the chairmanship. Says Banking Analyst Joseph Arsenio of San Francisco's Birr, Wilson investment house: "Schwab had to be frustrated with the gradualist approach taken by management and the other directors...
International cooperation. In September, Reagan will recall U.S. ambassadors to the major drug-producing countries for "special consultations." The President aims to reassure foreign governments that have so far been notably reluctant to act against local drug producers without stronger indications that the U.S. will do something to stem the burgeoning demand of its drug users. The Administration intends as well to provide military support, like the troops and helicopters sent to Bolivia last month. "Operation Blast Furnace" was ridiculed for failing to catch any drug producers, but last week U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Edward Rowell claimed that the raids...
American businesses a decade ago did not operate in China. Now scores do. But reports that the Chinese are embracing capitalism is erroneous. Problems stem not only from the seemingly insurmountable obstacles caused by the infrastructure in China, but also from constant rule changes, controls and contract breaking...