Word: stems
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Meanwhile, at UCLA the review appears to stem partly from a drop in the undergraduate Asian-American admissions rate, which went from 82.4 percent in 1980 to 38.2 percent in 1987. UCLA officials say that Asian-American and white admissions rates remained comparable in 1983 and 1987, at about 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. The government is also investigating admissions at UCLA's graduate schools of public health, management and engineering...
Repellent condescension to ROTC members aside, the council position distorts and insults a legacy of hard-won University independence from outside control. Student opposition to ROTC does not stem from elitist discrimination, but from objections to ROTC's own discriminatory policies...
...only way to rebuild a system so deeply corroded. The failed reforms of 1965, which attempted to introduce price and profit incentives, showed that tinkering with parts of the economy without a comprehensive overhaul of attitudes was doomed. Linkage is necessary because the economic and social problems all stem from the same root: too much centralization. A system based on bureaucratic commands has failed. Decentralization is necessary. But this cannot occur unless people are allowed the freedom to think for themselves...
...being outgunned by drug dealers with Uzis and AR- 15s. Urban emergency rooms have started resembling MASH units, with doctors treating the sort of huge gunshot wounds once seen only in combat. The Second Amendment notwithstanding, more and more Americans have decided that something must be done to stem the nation's internal arms race...
That neglect may stem from indifferent fellow passengers on this planet or, more seriously, eternity. Updike does not want to conclude that his -- or anyone's -- existence means nothing in the long run. His belief in God, his Sunday church-going, his hope for some form of a hereafter are all discussed and underline how unconventional his fiction has been by contemporary standards...