Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, Mary McCarthy said something interesting in an interview recently, that "our perception of the world and our values stem absolutely from the possibility of some reasonably true perception of nature-which is gradually disappearing and will soon become impossible." That could be so. Myself, I like watching the ocean...
...faculty rejected the Council's proposals, however, unleashing a wave of protest that rivaled the upheavals of a year ago. The proposals had emerged from dialogue with a faculty liaison committee appointed by Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 to stem the tide of unrest after boycotts, demonstrations, and sit-ins locked the campus last spring. For may, their defeat signaled the failure of student efforts to work within established channels, and previously passive students entered the fray...
...Cabinet official to die at the hands of the Colombian mafia. Within hours of his death, Colombian police, army and security forces launched the most extensive crackdown on the narcotics trade in the country's history, one that promises to help the U.S. in its uphill struggle to stem the ever rising tide of Colombian cocaine and marijuana. The U.S. has backed the Colombian government's antinarcotics efforts with $7 million in aid since 1983, and the State Department has requested an additional $10.3 million for next year...
...away. It acquired an armor-plated niche in the English imagination. Its present triumph, symbolized by the Tate show, has nothing to do with dubious cultural cliches like "postmodernist irony." There is no irony in Pre-Raphaelitism. Everything there, from the pale, swooning damozels down to the last grass stem, is the product of unutterable sincerity. Those painters would rather have died of lockjaw than paint anything that was not direct, heartfelt and didactic...
State and federal officials are trying to stem a rising tide of computer mischief. But they are finding it hard to make their punishments fit the crimes. Many of the best-publicized pranks have been committed by minors who are protected from the full force of the law. Moreover, the laws are often inadequate to deal with the complexities of the new technology. In March two members of Milwaukee's 414 Gang of computer whiz kids, which last summer broke into computers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor...