Word: stems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's lawsuits, filed late last month in Middlesex Country Superior Court, stem from the University's decision in August 1991 not to sponsor the Eighth International Conference on AIDS in Boston...
...described yourself as a born-again Christian, second generation Chinese-Filipino American kid from the suburbs of L.A. You said a few years ago that you wanted to explore the "mysteries of our identities"; do you no longest think there are mysteries, or just that they don't stem from our ethnicities...
...more units than it has ever shipped in any quarter in its history. The shipments include the company's five-year-old PS/2 models as well as its brand-new line of laptops. While its new assertiveness has been praised by analysts, IBM can at best hope only to stem its losses rather than to reclaim its lost glory...
...interventions, from Korea to Vietnam to Grenada. Having triumphed in its global struggle with the Soviets, the U.S. gained the opportunity to put more emphasis on its ideals than on its interests. But so far, it has mainly focused on the latter. American troops went into Panama to stem the flow of drugs and into Kuwait to protect the flow of oil -- vital national interests indeed. In both cases, President Bush stressed America's moral motivations. But James Baker made the gaffe (defined as a politician's accidentally telling the truth) of admitting that the reason for going into...
...Malcolm X, the short-term objective is to intercede and present a peaceful resolution. The ultimate goal is more ambitious. "Too many black males are being killed every day," says Pannell. "It's necessary that we put violence prevention into our everyday curriculum. We have to do something to stem this tide of violence...