Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the power of such a book, missing in the film, may stem from each reader's opportunity to form his own image of the characters. In the animated version, Beagle's fantasy unicorn becomes a stereotypical white horse with a horn. And the voices of actors reading the lines, background theme music and songs only interfere with the delicate unfolding of the plot...
...disabled," assigning them a secondary role outside society. Behind their praise for "courage" and "achievements" is the message that when we do break into mainstream society we are only there because of some superior personal qualities, not because that is our rightful place as human beings. Attitudinal barriers often stem from discomfort and fear, and create a barrier for which there is no ready solution. Underneath them is a wish to avoid contact with people with disabilities, perhaps out of fear of confronting one's own mortality, as some people posit, of "there but for fortune go I." Attitudinal barriers...
Falling under the broad category of "communications," these flaws are no one's fault in particular but everyone's burden to examine. They stem from a complex arrangement between Radcliffe-which owns the building-and Harvard which operates it under the terms of a decade old merger agreement between the two institutions...
Marcia H. Connolly, associate director of admissions, speculated yesterday that the decline might stem from students' worries about money, but added that the college choices of students who turn Harvard down don't always support that assumption...
...understanding of affirmative action isn't much better. This policy's problems, according to Mr. Kenyatta, "stem from traditional ties between American Blacks and the liberal White establishment." The fact is that White liberals, in both the private and government sectors, have been and remain the strongest supporters of affirmative action. In fact, most Whites support the policy. A Harris survey in 1982 (Aug,) shows that a majority of voters, by 69 percent to 21 percent, favors "laws requiring affirmative action programs for women and minorities in employment, provided there are no figid quotas...