Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets and hallways are ruled by marauding youth gangs that police say number 100 in all. Squads of Cobra Stones live at Cabrini-Green, and they are in an almost constant state of war with the resident members of the Black Gangster Disciples. Most of the shootings stem from gang struggles over control of drug sales, prostitution and extortion...
Matsushita President Yamashita earns $333,300 a year, and Saito makes $12,900. But except for age and experience they seem almost interchangeable. The differences between them stem mostly from the less formal, Westernized style of Japan's younger generation...
...Chief Justice's points appeared to stem from a belief that the "massive safeguards for accused persons" built up by the judicial system in recent decades are out of proportion with the protection now afforded to law abiding citizens. He urged more stringent standards on bail to prevent the release of suspects likely to commit a crime between their arrest and trial. For those who end up behind bars, he renewed his familiar proposals for better facilities, improved training, and more sensible incentives to "learn the way out of prison...
...seminar may be used as a "foundation" for the NFL to stem conditions which have led other sports to "price themselves out of the market," Jack Donlan, executive director of the NFL Management Council, said...
...matter of Mr. Reagan it will be considerably easier for, say, a pleased New York Post to write its 3-in. headlines: BONNIE RONNIE, or DUTCH TREAT, rather than resorting to a characteristic, though imprecise, YAY. There is, of course, a kind of nickname that does not stem from a desire for familiarity. Sobriquet is a more ceremonial word for nickname (sort of a nickname's given name), but it is generally used in a formal, titular sense, and not as anything one actually would call someone else. A nickname may be at once demeaning and endearing...