Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time, the Government has concluded that smoking is a major cause of stroke, accounting for an estimated 26,500 deaths a year. Half of all strokes in people under 65 stem from smoking...
Some of Maven's problems stem from its attempt to serve the Orthodox Jewish community. When it first opened last spring, Maven's did not serve on Friday nights and Saturdays in order to earn strict kosher certification. Maven's also hired a cook who had worked at Harvard Hillel...
Walsh says his current positions toward the University stem from a dinner for the Council that President Bok hosted last summer. At the meal, Walsh says he noticed a deterioriation in the state of relations between Harvard and the city...
...Nabisco showdown may prove to be one of Milken's final moments of glory. He and Drexel are expected to be slapped any day now with criminal indictments accusing them of racketeering, mail fraud and other crimes. The charges would stem from two years of federal investigations that prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission to file a civil suit against Milken and Drexel in September, accusing them of 18 transactions including stock manipulation and other securities-law violations. Says a close associate of the embattled dealmaker: "Two years ago, Milken was on top of the world. Now it has crashed...
...willing to talk about it, much less seek help. Besides being embarrassed, most sufferers figure that the problem must be "all in your head" and therefore difficult to treat. But they could hardly be more wrong. Medical researchers have determined that up to 75% of all cases of impotence stem from physical problems, most of which can be treated. As new types of remedies, ranging from drug therapy to surgery, come into increasingly widespread use, impotence is no longer a hopeless condition...