Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exploitation of players by owners and coaches, and fans insance vicarious identification with the game both stem from forgetting the meaning of athletics. The problems in professional sports are deep-seated; while small changes are coming about, the fundamental problems will remain until fans stop watching the games. Which they aren't going to do. Spectating is fun but at Saturday's tragedy unfortunately shows it must be kept in perspective...
Johnson was under attack from community leaders in the areas of Roxbury and Dorchester that were under his command. The Globe reported, because the police were unable to stem the area's large drug trade. The community sources reportedly attributed the failure to Johnson's inability to work well with his subordinates...
Catliff got other chances, including a hard left-footer that forced Bruin goalkeeper Hunter Stem to make a leaping save to his left, but no goals...
...Administration's recommendations stem from a March 11 directive aimed at tightening counterespionage efforts and reducing the number of news leaks to the press. Under the original directive, current and former employees with security clearances must submit to government censors any writing they mean to publish. The requirement also forced officials to consent to polygraph tests if suspected of unauthorized news releases. Failure to comply with the mandates can result in demotion or reassignment. The new orders proposed last week extend random lie-detector tests to all officials with access to classified information, even if no evidence of security breaches...
...ventures. Says Texas Governor Mark White: "Midland helped a lot of people to make a lot of money." So last week when the troubled First National Bank of Midland was about to collapse under the burden of energy loans gone sour, the community staged a pep rally to stem a run on its deposits. About a thousand citizens gathered in Midland's Civic Center, many of them wearing lapel stickers that proclaimed I'M CONFIDENT. Oilman John Redfern Jr. told the crowd, "I hope you'll rake around, find some dough and put it in the bank...