Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to stem the outflow of funds, the Nigerian central bank two weeks ago ordered all 26 commercial banks in the country temporarily to stop processing or issuing import letters of credit and to cease approving applications for the conversion of Nigerian currency into foreign funds to pay for imports. Nigerian businessmen believe that their country will be forced to adopt still stricter import measures later this spring...
...fact, Schaap quotes several psychologists as suggesting that the owner's legendary capriciousness could stem only from a need to please his father. And, says Schaap. Henry G. Steinbrenner was rarely pleased. When his son purchased the Yankees in 1973, his father told friends, "That's the first smart thing he's ever done...
Most of the worries of the woman in this poem stem from her attempts to learn a second language, a tongue of stale, curtained windows. She is imprisoned not by the street but by her aversion to her sole option--going down to the street and speaking the street language of the men she will find there. The lines she repeats--"thinks of going down into the street"--are the antithesis of her images of Alaska, the source of "williwas wind," volcanoes, spruces, birds, and the Bering...
...Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the second largest guerrilla organization and the one that is probably the least doctrinaire, Villalobos has been described in some leftist publications as a "militarist," meaning that he denigrates theory in favor of action. Unlike some of the other groups, Villalobos' E.R.P. did not stem from the Communist Party; its original members were largely radicalized Roman Catholics who resorted to kidnaping and urban terrorism...
...overcharges stem from a rent board miscalculation of a 1981 general rent adjustment, and representatives of Harvard Real Estate, which manages the apartment building, have contended that the University should not be liable for a rebate amounting to about...