Word: stems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these accidents] occur, other than the calculated roulette wheel," he says. "No one, I can assure you, no one works harder than Harvard University and MIT in trying to control these situations, and nobody is more embarrassed when they do take place because they work so hard to stem these things from happening...
...than a factory for political chaos, full of secessionists, radical Muslims, communists and renegade soldiers fomenting catastrophe. But in a swirl of the very disorder he claimed to have dispelled, Suharto was forced last May to relinquish power to a trusted disciple, B.J. Habibie. Even that move could not stem the unrest, and after six months of political tension and economic hardship, chaos has returned to the world's fifth most populous country. Indonesia's woes have been a driving force behind Asia's financial crisis, and the new instability could trigger global market shudders...
...nice updating of David Seville's Witch Doctor into a wild Tiki Room monkey jamboree; a sweet scene of Tommy and Dil learning to share a blanket. But the charm of the TV show has been coarsened and franticized. The film's writers (David N. Weiss and J. David Stem) and directors (Norton Virgien and Igor Kovalyov) have taken the Spielberg scenario as their template--children separated from their parents, then found--but this one has the harried air of The Goonies. And the film may have overestimated its hold on a few core constituencies. At a screening last week...
...educational institution, Harvard is dedicated to the development of ideas. Political repression, which seeks to stem the flow of ideas, directly contradicts this mission. Implied in protecting the development of ideas is protecting the people who develop those ideas. The intellectual community, therefore, becomes critically weak if it allows the silencing of dissent...
...rules--or lack thereof--stem from a larger corporate philosophy that stresses individuality and allows employees to make their own decisions, says Joe Liemandt, president and founder...