Word: stems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stem the separatist tide, Gorbachev announced plans to press for a new treaty of the union, confirming the sovereignty of the republics. But he also promised to "radicalize" perestroika, speed up the timetable of the government economic-reform program, cut the state budget deficit, cope with the crisis in agriculture and food supplies, solve the growing refugee problem and guarantee the "stability of public order and the security of citizens" -- a tall order for any leader, much less one as beset as Gorbachev...
Five hundred miles south, you can stand on the banks of the Mississippi and watch that topsoil roll by, going down to the Gulf of Mexico. The 34 million acres of fragile cropland taken out of production over the past few years have helped stem this wash, but farmers are still losing to erosion four tons of topsoil for every ton of grain produced...
Women's eating disorders stem from a lack of confidence in themselves, said speakers at a Boylston Hall panel discussion on women and eating disorders...
...advantages of the limited-debit system stem from the flexibility it affords students. Everyone has a least-favorite night on the dining hall menu cycle, and a limited-debit system would allow them to avoid it. Secondly, students could avoid the endless lines at lunch-time at the Union, Adams, Quincy and Lowell. The Quadlings who must crowd into river houses at lunch would be free to choose a restaurant instead...
...Governor Wilson from Day One." Obviously, Wilson was trying to distance himself on the environment from California's outgoing Republican Governor George Deukmejian and to lay at least some conservative claim to the issue. Insists Wilson strategist Otto Bos, with etymological aplomb: "The words conservation and conservative, after all, stem from the same root...