Word: stems
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Many of the candidates' problems in catching public attention stem from the sheer unpredictability of the economy itself. Reasoned debate on economic policy can be confusing even under the best of circumstances, yet it is hard to imagine conditions less suited to a sensible and informed discussion than the chaotic ones that currently prevail. In little more than eight months' time, the nation's topsy-turvy economy swung in sequence from runaway inflation and exploding interest rates to supertight money and soaring unemployment. Then interest rates plunged, money became easier and inflation declined. Now, just as abruptly...
...wins and losses--the system has proved only a moderate success, and, for the past three years, not very successful at all. Since 1976, Harvard football is 11-15-1; Restic steadfastly maintains the system is not at fault. The coach says all of the system's problems stem from personnel fallibility: "The only time it [the Multiflex] doesn't go is when we negate it." And Restic has seen his system negated in a staggering variety of ways...
...famed French connection, and the lab's alleged boss, a suspected Mafioso, who was wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here I am), and then defiantly refused to say another word. Bensinger believes that such raids are at least helping to stem the flow of heroin to the U.S. Said he: "It still is a major problem-more addicts, a drain on society. But the level of increase could have been far worse...
...solving problems and, more important, to avoid bureaucratic mismanagment. The absence of American History courses in the course catalog last year and the paltry number offered this year are inexcusably blamed on poor juggling of the History Department's leave-taking schedule. This kind of foible does not stem from financial mismanagement, but Harvard students end up paying...
Last June in St. Louis, well-organized conservatives at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention elected a stem-winding preacher named Bailey Smith, 41, as president of the nation's biggest Protestant group (13.4 million members). Smith, who trained at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a pastor at the First Southern Baptist Church in Del City, Okla., managed to keep a low profile until a big August political rally in Dallas, organized by the rising Protestant right. Reporters flocked to a press conference where Ronald Reagan was holding forth in favor of biblical creationism...