Word: stems
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...pattern began to form. The Soviets posed a number of tests for the U.S., and Washington passed most of them. Pavlov argued that Moscow's ability to stem the flow of weapons to Central America depended on Soviet confidence that the military threat to Managua was lessening. In response, Aronson described as a concession the scaling back of U.S. maneuvers in Honduras. He cited the cutoff of humanitarian assistance to a contra commander who had independently attacked a Sandinista outpost in violation of the Bipartisan Accord's ban on offensive operations. He mentioned the closing of the contras' political office...
Borne into the U.S. on private jets, inside the scuzzy trunks of old cars or even on flimsy rubber rafts equipped with cellular phones, the shipments of human cargo are surging. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was supposed to stem this tide, mostly by beefing up enforcement and nabbing employers who hire these aliens. But the number of illegals apprehended by federal agents, 954,000 in 1989, is suddenly rising sharply. In a perverse way, IRCA has enhanced the smuggling trade by motivating undocumented aliens to plan their trips more carefully. Result: up to half the estimated...
Whitman said that the three percent of abortion cases that stem from rape and incest do not justify allowing abortions for the other 97 percent...
...bill was proposed by Sen. William Keating (D-Sharon), who said the measure could stem the tide of dropouts and save the state money in the long term...
Environmental problems stem from deep-rooted flaws within the structure of developed society, said environmental advocates assembled at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum of Public Affairs last night...