Word: stems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fresh start: "I don't care if the F.I.S. is excluded," said Farid Harssani, 38, a printshop worker. "This is the first time we've had more than one candidate to vote for." Above all other considerations, Algerians voted in the desperate belief that their gesture might somehow stem the violence wracking their country...
...Balkan Presidents were almost ready to take the step of actually signing a draft agreement. Almost. "We are inches away," said a frustrated U.S. official, just before the three Presidents, who had been repeatedly coaxed "to the edge''of the table, once again backed off. Their skittishness did not stem only from a concern that they may get a better deal; the "Rabin effect," as Dayton insiders call it, took hold, as the Presidents were worried that if they appeared to give away too much, they might be assassinated at home...
...clock, six hours before Powell's official announcement. The Senate majority leader was flying to New Hampshire aboard a chartered Gulfstream II to receive the endorsement of New Hampshire Governor Steve Merrill, a coup of major proportions. Merrill's conservative credentials are unquestioned; his support can help stem the far right's cry that Dole is too moderate. "That right?" said Dole, smiling thinly, when the news reached him at 35,000 ft. And then he fixed his gaze at a distant point outside the window. Lost in thought, he was obviously relieved. But not elated...
Consider another example of the real Dole vs. the campaign Dole. On the stump and in his video, Dole urges a more muscular effort to stem drug imports. Privately, Dole has little respect for that policy. "Interdiction is something you can't give up on," he says, "but it'll never do the deed. We've got to get serious about rehabilitation--use our abandoned military bases for facilities--and direct money to educate kids about drugs, starting in the second grade...
...authors point out, the word privacy appears nowhere in the Constitution. The things many Americans take for granted--the right to an abortion, for instance, or the assumption that their mail will not be read by others--stem in part from the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, in part from the 14th Amendment guarantee that no person will be denied "life, liberty or property, without due process of law," and in part from a constantly evolving patchwork of federal and state laws...