Word: allay
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Rosenthal also met individually with most of the counselors and said he attempted to “allay any anxieties” they had about the change. He said that Weylman is the only counselor with whom...
...r?sum?: his manifest lack of experience in Seoul's payola-driven politics, a system that the great majority of voters already viewed with distrust and disdain. Once in office, Roh's amateurish and inconstant performance, as well as his own cynical attempts to game the system, did little to allay popular misgivings about the health of the democracy. Recall that, after barely eight months in office, a frustrated and tactically outclassed Roh toyed with pulling a coup d'?tat against himself by demanding an extra-constitutional referendum to back his policies and threatening to resign from the presidency...
...musicians such as McNamara, the modified regulations allay their worst fears, making it possible for them to pursue an art—and a living—hard won under any circumstances...
Additionally, if HMS wishes to allay the fears of those concerned about its treatment of primates, it could offer tours of the facilities, or at the very least, videotapes and photographs of the primates undergoing experiments. If HMS treats its primates so well, it should be proud to make such documentation publicly available; instead they hide 25 miles from campus behind locked doors...
...President and his entourage rolled into Europe last week. Like most of those attending the European summits with Bush - in Krakow, St. Petersburg, and at the G-8 in Evian - the Americans were playing down differences and talking up the need for greater transatlantic cooperation. Washington's goal: to allay European fears that victory in Iraq will tempt the U.S. to run roughshod over world opinion. "It isn't the power of the U.S. that needs to be checked," cooed Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, "It's the power of the U.S. that needs to work cooperatively with...