Word: allay
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CASV members said they felt the use of the SFF would help allay fears that the corroboration requirement inspired about the standard for a complaint to be investigated thoroughly...
...Hoping to allay fears that Washington is rushing to install its favorite Iraqi exiles - most notable among them controversial Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi - U.S. officials stressed that Tuesday's discussion was simply intended as a meet-and-greet, designed to open a discussion. Chalabi, in fact, didn't even attend; he simply sent a representative. More ominous absences, though, were the two militant groups most influential among Iraq's Shiite majority, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Dawa Party. Thousands of their supporters turned out in the streets on nearby Nasiriyah...
Students have quarantined themselves to allay the fears of their roommates. Travel to certain areas is officially discouraged by the University. Harvard infectious disease experts estimate that three million in the Boston area could be infected in six months, with 100,000 deaths...
...flatbed trucks trundle slowly up the highway from Basra to Baghdad, bearing a precarious cargo: a pair of Soviet-era T-52 tanks, their long gun barrels pointed defiantly at the sky. Rumor has it that Iraqi heavy armor is deliberately being moved around in full display to allay public concerns about the army's fighting capabilities. If that is indeed the intention, then the T-52s are being hauled in the wrong direction. The folks who most need that kind of reassurance are the citizens of Basra...
...feud between Templeton and HMC arose from a dispute over share price. HMC said it believes that the China and Dragon funds trade at excessively low prices, reflecting poor management. Templeton said the funds’ growth should allay those concerns...