Word: allayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesman confirmed that the Defense Department was considering lifting the ceiling on trainers. But White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry M. Speakes denied the report. Reagan settled that matter at week's end by stating that "we may want to go beyond 55." However, he was careful to allay fears of open-ended escalation. "In no sense are we speaking of participation in combat by American troops," he said. "There is no parallel whatsoever with Viet...
Fiallos, who received a master's degree from the Law School in 1972, added that his government would try to pursue a mixed economy, attempting to allay U.S. fears that Nicaragua was moving towards a socialist system...
...University's vice Presidents for government and community affairs wrote a letter to Cambridge officials last week to allay their fears that plans to improve the life of under--graduates living off campus would strain the city's tight housing market...
...said the University plans "intensified recruiting" to combat a drop in the number of Black students who accept Harvard's offer of admission this year. He added that Harvard will heighten communications to allay student fears that Harvard has cut back on its financial aid offerings. "We're not waiting another year to do something," he said...
...photographed for the first time in his cell. At the start, Manson, whose drug-using, commune-organizing, desert-dwelling '60s life-style once made him America's most prominent disturbed person, was leery and unwilling. But during a second visit with Manson, Leifer managed to allay Manson's fears. In the competitive world of photojournalism, Leifer has always played to a tough audience, including Abraham Leifer, his father, who built the first darkroom that his son used, and who died last week at the age of 70. But on a trip to Attica Correctional Facility in upstate...