Word: stems
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Adopting public policies that "build healthy communities" is the best way to stem violence in America and to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a dean and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, at a ceremony held Monday afternoon to honor the slain civil rights leader...
Philip J. Parsons, director of planning for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) said that objections to the plan stem from confusion over the specific details of the project. Parsons said he thinks that critics are confused by an article published in the Boston Globe which gave an incomplete account of the plans...
...expenses that O'Leary's delegations billed for trips to India and South Africa have no receipts or records to justify how the money was spent. Energy officials are searching for the records and tightening up accounting procedures. Critics inside the department point to other expenditures that stem from O'Leary's zeal for burnishing the agency's image. Last year, Energy Department officials told TIME, the agency spent $10,182 drawing up trendier designs for its logo. O'Leary abandoned the idea after aides learned that it would cost $1.7 million for new logos on all the flags, seals...
...cast, after his opponent charged that he was more interested in playing God than in seeing to the care and feeding of his constituents. That brush with political death, it turns out, has produced an even more harrowing one. Some of the charges that are now ruining his holiday stem from that tight race. GOPAC was permitted by law to help only candidates for state and local offices, but documents filed by the Federal Election Commission charge that the lobby spent more than $250,000 in "Newt support" to help Gingrich hang onto his seat. Democrats have long claimed that...
...help stem 401(k) thievery, the Labor Department is backing legislation that will require accountants who uncover fraud in a plan to notify federal authorities immediately. Regulations now allow seven months from the discovery until the time reports are due, by which time a troubled company may have declared bankruptcy. The department is also considering whether to shorten the 90-day grace period that firms have to turn over 401(k) funds to investment managers...