Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Rudolph Guiliani last week accepted the 192-page report of the Administration's Task Force on Violent Crime. Set up last March and chaired by former Attorney General Griffin Bell and Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson, the eight-member panel recommended a posse of reforms designed to stem the national crime spree...
According to your story "A Watt That Produces Steam" [Aug. 3], White House aides believe that James Watt's difficulties "stem more from style than substance." How would a mere change of style help protect our environment from Watt's narrow, future-be-damned attitude...
...Communists had reason to celebrate. In the past two decades, the Wall has helped stem the mass exodus that saw East Germany lose 3.6 million people between 1945 and the dawn of Aug. 13, 1961. Since then fewer than 200,000 have escaped. Some of the 72 who failed are remembered by small, weather-worn crosses that mark the sites along the Wall where they were killed in the attempt...
...young people, the program will beef up retirement benefits for elderly workers. To encourage firms to sign up teenagers, the government will pay $28 for every employee under 18 who earns $74 a week or less. The proposals were immediately dismissed by opposition Labor Party leaders as trying to "stem a flood tide with a sandbag...
...injunction request was the latest in a long series of legal challenges to the ordinance, passed in 1979 in an effort to stem the tide of condo conversions in the city. "It hasn't lost yet," city councilor David Sullivan, who drafted the ordinance, said yesterday...