Word: stems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent take-over of the mosque in Mecca--now known to be a well-organized attempt by Moslem fundamentalists to overthrow the Saudi leadership and not the isolated work of Shiite fanatics--showed that instability in the region is more likely to stem from domestic political unrest them from foreign intervention...
...inadequacy of the United States' energy policy and of Carter's contradictory and often hypocritical foreign policy have locked him into a course of action which is as dangerous as it is predictable. The inconsistencies of the newly promulgated "Carter Doctrine" stem from Carter's misunderstanding of detente...
Ultimately this energy source stands to succeed. It comes not from OPEC but from the nation's own abundant natural resources. Even if the big distilleries are never built, there is much promise and fast growing interest in the fuel self-sufficiency that could stem from cellar and barnyard do-it-yourself stills. The ethanol they produce could be mixed with gasoline and used to fuel private autos and tractors...
...would be to auction off a chunk of its 180-million-oz. silver stockpile, the only substantial official reserve of the metal left in the world. An auction would help cool down the markets for all precious metals, including gold. Some lower Treasury officials last week discussed how to stem the gold and silver stampede, but decided to hold back when rumors of a gold auction alone were enough to cahn the markets. Said one Treasury official to TIME Washington Economic Correspondent William Blaylock at week's end: "We are not going to do a darned thing today...
...leaders of these Third World countries can now only interpret American nuclear non-proliferation policy as another attempt to preserve the existing imbalance in world power and to deny them the benefits that the industrialized nations have long profited from. Success in the attempt to stem the proliferation of nuclear weapons throughout a politically unstable Third World depends upon U.S. recognition that these countries are no longer second-class world citizens. As such, the United States must sacrifice a bit before it can expect developing nations to do the same...