Word: stems
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Principally, they stem from what New Rightists call her "drastic amending" of a bill that would have banned adult bookstores within a one-mile radius of schools and parks. O'Connor altered the restriction to 4,000 feet, but she clearly had no desire to corrupt youth. One possible motive: getting state law to conform with federal statutes, thus reducing the possibility of court challenges...
...Southern Baptist terms, Smith, 42, is a formidable figure, a fiery redhaired, old-style prairie stem-winder. Last year his First Southern Baptist Church in Del City listed 2,027 baptisms by immersion, a record for the S.B.C. and, presumably, any other U.S. Protestant group. In opposition to Smith's candidacy, anti-Smith moderates fielded distinguished, disarming Abner McCall, 66, former president of Baylor University. McCall was described by his backers as "a Lincoln who can preserve this Baptist union...
Threatened by younger, more alluring and higher-yielding money-market funds, the long marriage between investors and the American savings and loan associations is in trouble. This year S and Ls may lose $5 billion of their $32 billion in net capitalization. To stem the flight of depositors, they have had to offer new savings instruments with higher and higher interest rates. The conundrum: at the same time that they carry huge portfolios of old mortgages, including some that were made in the 1960s and yield 6% or 7%, S and Ls must pay 15% or more for new deposits...
...latest charges stem from "Operation Pendorf," an FBI investigation into labor racketeering. According to the indictment handed down by a Chicago federal grand jury, Williams, Chicago Insurance Broker Allen Dorfman and three others told Cannon that if he would delay consideration of a bill designed to deregulate trucking rates and routes, he would be allowed to buy some valuable Nevada property owned by the Teamsters pension fund. The deal never came off. Cannon voted for a weakened version of the trucking deregulation bill, which passed. The Justice Department has told the Senator that he will not be indicted...
...image and myth of Italy presides over this show, as it must over any account of 19th century German culture. The reasons are many, but they grow from one stem: Italy offered German artists both sensuous fulfillment and an integral, traditional discipline-as it had, centuries earlier, to their national hero Albrecht Dürer. The luxury lay in nature, the stringency in culture. Goethe's "land where lemons flower" provided its Northern enthusiasts with an inexhaustible supply of prototypes and themes, marmoreal fragments of the Roman past and painted lessons from the Renaissance...