Word: stems
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...sometimes factually incorrect. First, the American Marines entered Lebanon in the late summer and early fall of 1982, not in 1983, as Mr. Kahn states. Further, the goal of the American presence was not, as Mr. Kahn insists, "to end a bitter war which threatened Israel..." or to stem the "geographical and religious destruction of Israel" which he believes to be the "ultimate goal" of the war in Lebanon. Instead, the Americans entered to diffuse a complex political situation which Israel helped to bring about by occupying southern Lebanon, coming into conflict with the Soviet client Syria, besieging the heavily...
Rather than take on the entire immigration code, Simpson's legislation aims to stem the far greater tide of immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally. The Wyoming Senator and his supporters argue that failure to act decisively in the present entails a major risk in the future: resentment, xenophobia and an eventual backlash against all immigrants. Says Simpson: "Illegal immigration endangers a fair and generous policy of legal immigration." The concern is generally shared by those responsible for enforcing immigration laws. "Nothing is going to blow up right away," says Alan Nelson, commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization...
Some of interferon's failings may stem from the fact that it has been tried mainly in the most desperate cases of cancer, on those for whom no other treatment has worked. "These are the worst possible conditions in which to test it," says Krim. She and others think that interferon holds greater promise for patients with early cancers and those whose immune systems have not been weakened by radiation treatment or chemotherapy. Other potential uses for interferon: heading off the recurrence of tumors after they have been surgically removed, and preventing precancerous conditions like cervical dysplasia from progressing into...
According to police, Atwa said he and the others were members of Islamic Jihad, a claim later affirmed by an anonymous caller in Beirut and then disputed in a statement delivered to news agencies there. The confusion may stem from Iran's recent efforts to play down its connections with terrorists in hopes of winning international support for its 4 1/2-year struggle against Iraq. Atwa told police that his friends had managed to smuggle two grenades and a 9-mm pistol through the airport's X-ray machines by wrapping the weapons in fiber glass insulation...
Efforts to stem the arboreal tide have been futile. Stymied by a small budget, the National Park Service so far has been limited to spraying herbicides on some stands of Australian pines and attacking Melaleuca by slashing it with machetes and filling the cuts with toxic chemicals. "It's dire," says Marjory Stoneman Douglas, president of Friends of the Everglades, a conservation group. "If nothing is done, these trees are going to take over completely...