Word: stems
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Judy's success and athletic ability, however, stem greatly from family influence. As the second youngest of eight children, her father encouraged athletics at a young...
...recipient, the process begins with massive doses of chemotherapy or radiation, or both, to wipe out the disease. But that treatment kills the patient's bone-marrow cells as well. Without this spongy tissue at the core of many larger bones, a person cannot live. Marrow contains the precious stem cells that produce all the body's 30,000 trillion red blood cells, many of its infection-fighting white cells and the platelets that are essential for clotting...
...unfortunate implications of this argument stem from its basic, logical flaw. Rawlins's case employs a subtle equivocation on the word "represented;" that is, she uses it simultaneously to mean two different things. On the one hand, she uses "represented" to mean having someone present on the council who speaks for you, while, on the other hand, she uses it to mean having your group's demographic presence reflected proportionally in the actual make-up of the council. Rawlins then conflates the two in order to suggest that the first is impossible without the second. But, as a believer...
...Clinton also urged the nation to stem the tide of resegregation, warning that ?too many Americans have given up on the idea of integration and the search for common ground...
...Rhodes Scholarship was established from the estate of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, while the Marshall scholarship was established by the British government as a gesture of gratitude to the United States for its Cold War-era Marshall Plan of assistance to stem the tide of communism...